When your patient has a gun: Changes to firearms legislation

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When your patient has a gun: Changes to firearms legislation

Vee Blackwood

Thursday 7 November 2019, 01:40 PM

Clinicians are likely to be more involved with police regarding firearms licences

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Policy advisor in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner Vee Blackwood outlines the impact on health practitioners of new proposed gun legislation

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