‘Snowed under’ co-located Wanaka practices on path to health care home status

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‘Snowed under’ co-located Wanaka practices on path to health care home status

31 July 2019

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Cassie

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Wednesday 31 July 2019, 05:00 AM

Some members of Wanaka’s Aspiring Medical Centre team gather for an HCH meeting: Jayne Davies (GP), Lynda Davis (nurse manager), Caroline Stark (general manager), Carolyn McKenzie (standing, GP) and Annelies Visser (operations manager)

Since 2011, Wanaka’s two practices have been sharing the same building, the after-hours services and coping with a huge influx of tourists and new residents. Fiona Cassie reports

We are used to dealing with large numbers of patients who we’ve never seen before Being “snowed under” with patients means that handling growth,

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