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Newcastle's GP Access is too important to lose: letters October 30 2021

By Letters to the Editor
October 30 2021 - 4:00am
OPEN QUESTION: GP Access manager Melissa Ward and Hunter Primary Care chief executive Brenda Ryan. Picture: Marina Neil
OPEN QUESTION: GP Access manager Melissa Ward and Hunter Primary Care chief executive Brenda Ryan. Picture: Marina Neil

THE revelation by the Newcastle Herald regarding the closure of the Calvary Mater's GP Access clinic due to the strangulation of funding by the Commonwealth Primary Health Network ("Access denied", Herald 28/10) is wrong. This Hunter-initiated program has helped tens of thousands in their hours of need, and relieved the chronically short-staffed and under-funded emergency departments of the Hunter. GP Access should be nurtured and continue to be adequately funded.

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