A&M clinic not the answer for South Taranaki’s high ED presentation rate: Local health advocate

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A&M clinic not the answer for South Taranaki’s high ED presentation rate: Local health advocate

28 March 2018

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Wednesday 28 March 2018, 01:00 AM

Jenny Nager believes Taranaki DHB’s proposal of an A&M clinic is likely to worsen the local GP shortage problem

Following publication of the article – “South Taranaki needs to focus on retaining GPs not an urgent care clinic” in the 28 February issue of New Zealand Doctor, Jenny Nager of Hawera, a local health services advocate and former Taranaki DHB board member, forwarded this comment she presented to a Taranaki DHB meeting last November

This year [2017] we have seen the South Taranaki GP situation in crisis – not that many other years have been good for some considerable time. It has

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