When casual patients don’t fit the system

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When casual patients don’t fit the system

Barbara Docherty

Barbara Docherty

ED, registrar, hospital

Recent experience shows Barbara Docherty there’s little choice, and sometimes limited care, for the unenrolled

This is how it went. Son moves to Wellington, into a new home in an unfamiliar geographic area. Barely time to choose a new GP and enrol before starti