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Health New Zealand says shifting appointments out of major hospitals and into communities could spare Central Otago and Queenstown Lakes residents as many as 40,000 road trips a year.
Officials have unveiled ideas for overhauling the area's health services, after promising in July to assess long-standing inequities.
On Tuesday, at the first of four meetings about Health NZ's new clinical services plan for the region, hospitals funding director Rachel Haggerty told WΔnaka residents th
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