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Senior Waikanae Health GPs were working up to 80-hour weeks due to staffing shortages that prompted the closure last month of its beach satellite clinic. (Waikanae Watch pic)

‘Poster child’ practice Waikanae Health has gone from thriving to surviving as GP shortages and patient demands take their toll. Specialist GP Herman van Kradenburg speaks to Fiona Cassie about ‘untenable’ workloads and underfunding of elderly patients and Community Services Card-holder consultations.

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