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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Damon Cronshaw

'We need to build a public health system where everybody wants to work'

Dr Fiona Van Leeuwen, chair of the Hunter General Practitioners' Association. Picture by Jonathan Carroll

Long waitlists to see specialists in the Hunter and statewide raise questions about why some doctors are turning away from the public health system, GP groups say.

Dr Fiona Van Leeuwen, chair of the Hunter General Practitioners Association, said "a lot of specialists used to work in the public and private system".

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