Remote rural practice uses quality process to help patients get timelier medicines

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Remote rural practice uses quality process to help patients get timelier medicines

Te Kaha Medical Centre, source / Google
Practice nurse Kiritihanga Savage and GP Emily Gill presented to the Na­tional Rural Health Conference on the quality improvement project undertak­en at their remote Te Kaha practice

NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH CONFERENCE

Around 400 people – GPs, practice nurses, nurse practitioners, PHO and DHB officials and managers, politicians and NGO representatives attended the National Rural Health Conference, hosted by the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network, at the Wairakei Resort near Taupō early this month

Key points More than half the patients at remote Waihau Bay were facing major delays in receiving their prescription medications. A quality