Wairarapa health centre relying on Give a Little

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A Wairarapa health centre is heaving with new patients and having to rely on Give a Little, sausage sizzles and sales of donated jam to stay in the black. First Health and Wellness Centre is a nurse led practice, that doesn't currently have a Te Whatu Ora funding contract. Run by a charitable trust - it provides casual and urgent medical care, including for patients that can't get appointments at their normal clinic or GP. The centre's clinical director Nurse Trish Wilkinson spoke to Lisa Owen.

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