Postcode health or planned variation?

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Postcode health or planned variation?

Martin
Johnston
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Te Whatu Ora national commissioning director Abbe Anderson says there is a balance to be struck between national consistency in healthcare and communities’ wishes for regional variation [Print image credit: NZD]
The idea of “postcode healthcare” is a kind of political memory prompt. It reminds voters of how bad they felt when dear Aunt Mabel had to wait years