May 27 2025
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Welcoming visitors to Poutō From garden to lunch meal Tangowahine School has seen the success of in-house meal programmes after utilising the assets around …
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Budget’s healthcare promise to provinces The coalition government’s 2025 budget includes $164 million for a four-year plan to expand urgent and after-hours …
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p Visitors and locals coming to enjoy the picturesque vistas and excellent fishing of Poutō, and those disembarking onto the beach as part of cycle tours, will now find the point by the wharf paved and easier to access. Mayor Craig Jepson and a group of enthusiastic locals (including two volunteers who held the ribbon) enacted an opening ceremony last Friday, thanking the workers and designers who made the project come in on time and on budget.
Dargaville’s doctor shortage in focus u by Andy Bryenton
The only full-time doctor serving Dargaville Hospital is leaving amid an ongoing nationwide shortage of doctors, with a replacement set to fill the gap but not to bolster numbers to where they ideally would be.
Firefighters battle blood cancer Last weekend, firefighters from around New Zealand converged on Auckland’s Sky Tower to attempt a feat of …
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Dargaville Hospital is distinctly separate from the Dargaville Medical Centre, its next-door neighbour. Currently, the hospital is served by a single fulltime doctor and five other doctors who each work part-time hours. Critically, the professional who has resigned their
position is also the only specifically emergency room trained and boardcertified doctor at the facility. It is understood that staffing issues have remained ongoing at Dargaville and throughout Northland, with doctors said to have gone to other districts due to
wait times of up to two years to finalise the necessary paperwork for them to practice locally. Some of these, lost to the delay, are specialists who are sorely needed. A nationwide shortage of medical professionals has not helped matters. continued on page 3 …
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