Table 49: Number of medical doctors, neurologists, and geriatricians in NZ

	Total (#)
Public Neurologists 2015 (Ranta et al., 2015)	36
Geriatricians 2012 (New Zealand Parliament, n.d.)	72
Psychogeriatricians 2018 (Cheung et al., 2018)	50

 

References:

Cheung G., Sims A., Copeland B., Collins C., Bharathan S. (2018). The third New Zealand Psychiatry of Old Age services and workforce survey. Australas Psychiatry. 26(4):405-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/1039856218765891.

New Zealand Parliament. (n.d.). Indicator 34: Specially trained physicians. Available from: https://oag.parliament.nz/2013/ageing/our-ageing-population-indicators/indicator-34.

Ranta, A., Tiwari, P., Mottershead, J., Abernethy, D., Simpson, M., Brickell, K., et al. (2015). New Zealand’s neurologist workforce: a pragmatic analysis of demand, supply, and future projections. NZ Med J. 128(1419):35-44. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26365844/.