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After being told funding wouldn't be increased, Health NZ has agreed to meet with nursing schools whose proposal for more funding would see gaps in the workforce filled.Nine nursing schools joined forces in May and came up with a programme to create practitioning nurses.They needed a bit more funding and reckoned if they got that, they could train up twice as many nurse practitioners from next year.Nurse practitioners can do the same work as a GP, but are quicker and cheaper to train.College of Nurses executive director Jenny Carryer joined Andrew Dickens.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.