Rural hospital’s telehealth boost hardly impacts practice that lost half its doctors  

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Rural hospital’s telehealth boost hardly impacts practice that lost half its doctors  

Martin
Johnston
Dargaville Wairoa River
Patients wait for one to two months for a non-urgent appointment at Dargaville Medical Centre in Northland  [image: Mark Whatmough, Wikimedia Commons]
Dr Hopkins says the reduction was necessary to mitigate the risk of burnout The sole general practice in Dargaville is only slightly affected by