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Speaker 1: The doctor scrap in Napier. The plan going forward is

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Speaker 1: access to a nurse prescriber overnight telehealthcare. But the problem

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Speaker 1: here apparently is no doctor per se hasting zd's twenty

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Speaker 1: five minute drive away. Anyway, the NOPIA mayor, Kirston Wise

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Speaker 1: is with this Kurston morning for you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike. How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well. Indeed, do you not think what the

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Speaker 1: government has done is acceptable?

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Speaker 2: Specially I'd like to say we do appreciate the decision

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Speaker 2: to keep the in person services with the enhanced nurse practitioners,

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Speaker 2: but really is disappointing if they haven't taken that next

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Speaker 2: step to ensure that we've got in person GPS on

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Speaker 2: site as well.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so can you do anything about it or is

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Speaker 1: it over?

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Speaker 2: We are going to continue to engage with the minister

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Speaker 2: in government and the rally that was planned is going

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Speaker 2: to proceed on Sunday and we will be continuing to

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Speaker 2: fight for and it's not just this, It's not just

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Speaker 2: urgent overnight services. It's really the level of health services

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Speaker 2: in general that are being provided to the Napier community.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Part of the original argument they said was lack

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Speaker 1: of demand anyway, So I mean, how many people are

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Speaker 1: or something to deal.

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Speaker 2: With the lack of demand is largely driven by the

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Speaker 2: level of service that was being provided. So people weren't

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Speaker 2: going there because it was nurses who had a very

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Speaker 2: limited ability to actually assist them anyway. So that's where

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Speaker 2: the nurse practitioners will has an ability to provide a

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Speaker 2: higher level of care. And because the other part of

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Speaker 2: the equation is our ed in Hastings, which is already

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Speaker 2: overloaded and beyond capacity, so we don't want to put

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Speaker 2: any more pressure on there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Because I was going to say the twenty five

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Speaker 1: five minutes is nothing. I can't go around the block

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Speaker 1: in twenty five minutes. That's just one of those things,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. So it's twenty five minutes really the end

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Speaker 1: of the world. Or you're telling me that Hastings is

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Speaker 1: overfull anyway, so it's pointless.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. You present a Hasting ZD and you're

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Speaker 2: waiting six seven, eight hours and you know the other again,

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Speaker 2: the other part of this is we saw in cyclone

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Speaker 2: Gabrielle Nature got completely cut off from the rest of

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Speaker 2: the country, including our hospital and acknowledging that events like

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Speaker 2: that don't happen every day. But at the same time,

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Speaker 2: it's a very real risk that we need to mitigate.

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Speaker 1: Right. Do you realize you've got a poorches show on

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Speaker 1: this weekend at your place?

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Speaker 2: I do. I was in our War Memorial Center yesterday

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Speaker 2: admiring all the porsches. My goodness, that absolutely incredible.

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Speaker 1: That'll bring people in from far and wide, won't it.

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Speaker 2: I understand there's about two hundred delegates attending, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: It'll be brilliant. And what are you going to do

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Speaker 1: with the aquarium? That's the other thing I've been reading

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Speaker 1: about this week, and it's leaking. Is it too expensive

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Speaker 1: to keep going or not?

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Speaker 2: We certainly cannot continue with the status quo, and that's

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Speaker 2: what we've told our community and that's what we're talking

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Speaker 2: to them about. There's a number of options on the table,

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Speaker 2: including you know, see a reimagine or closure, and we

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Speaker 2: want we want to do what's best for our ratepayers.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Christina, you have a good weekend. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: it very much. Kristen Wise, who is the nape You

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