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Urgent Primary Care And After Hour Services To Close On The West Coast

19 Sep 2024

A leaked document authored by West Coast Health and marked “Confidential for Te Whatu Ora staff only” proposes that urgent primary care and after hour services will be offered via telehealth rather than by doctors and registered nurses for the entire West Coast from Karamea in the north, to Haast in the south. Read more

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