The Lifeline for Health report urges the retention and expansion of the existing workforce.
It recommends significantly increasing the number of trainee GPs, providing better supportive career planning , and reevaluating operating and business models in primary and community care.
Co-author Des Gorman says a huge number of doctors and nurses are leaving the profession, or cutting back their hours.
Leader Chris Luxon says it would apply to all year groups, at all times of the day.
But that doesn’t mean no phones in schools -- Luxon says the presumption is phones will be off, and packed away all day -- a policy many schools already have in place.
He says students who need a phone for health purposes, and those with learning challenges who need their phones -- will have an exemption and schools will ultimately be able to decide exactly how they enforce the policy.