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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
Wednesday 26 May 2021, 04:30 AM

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.
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