Mahurangi Matters_Issue 379_15 January 2020

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January 15, 2020

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Handyman George Wech’s spectacular “creations” line the roads of Hoteo and Kaipara Flats. See story page 11.

Urgent health clinic opening in Warkworth An urgent health care clinic, which will operate from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week, will open at the Rodney Surgical Centre in Warkworth within weeks. The new facility will be operated by Wellsford-based primary care service Coast to Coast Health Care. Coast to Coast director Dr Tim Malloy says the clinic will provide

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urgent medical assessment for people in the Mahurangi area who previously had to drive to the 24-hour clinic in Wellsford or North Shore Hospital. It will be modelled on accident and medical clinics found in metropolitan areas that treat most complaints, but patients who require surgery will still need to go to North Shore Hospital. The new clinic will have four

consulting rooms and five cubicles, as well as a resuscitation unit with a twobed observation room and x-ray unit. Additional services will include a pharmacy, physiotherapy room, laboratory and machinery for laser treatment of veins. Dr Malloy says the clinic is in response to a significant increase in demand at the Wellsford Medical Centre.

“About half of our urgent care patients from outside Wellsford are from the Warkworth area,” Dr Malloy says.

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“We were at capacity at Wellsford within three years and wished we had built the centre double the size.” The Wellsford urgent care clinic will remain the only 24-hour service continued page 2

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