Rural health in critical condition

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Rural health in critical condition

25 May 2022

Grant Davidson

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 12:00 AM

Short-staffed rural practices fear an exodus of young and overseas-trained doctors [Image: sezer66 on iStock]

RURAL GENERAL PRACTICE NETWORK

Years of advocacy for the rural health workforce continue to be greeted by inaction, writes Grant Davidson

It will surprise no one that the workforce crisis in general practice throughout New Zealand is worsening. In fact, we in the rural health sector have

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