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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald

UNBELIEVABLE: Government reopens gp access reinstating care as a priority - The Untold Story

The Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler, with local MPs and GP Access executives.

GP Access After Hours is the gold star service of after-hours care across the country.

For more than 20 years, members of the Hunter GP Association provided this crucial service to the community. But funding cuts by the former Liberal government meant that the GP Access After Hours service at the Calvary Mater Hospital closed on Christmas Eve 2021. The other after-hours clinics at Belmont Hospital, John Hunter Hospital, Maitland Hospital and Toronto Polyclinic were forced to reduce hours and their future was uncertain.

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