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Stephanie Gardiner

Women vulnerable under Tas health system

Women's Health Tasmania's CEO says layers of social issues are stopping women from seeing a GP. (AAP)

Women are particularly vulnerable under Tasmania's "stressed" regional healthcare system, with long wait times, high turnover of locum doctors, and lack of childcare impeding access, a Senate inquiry has been told.

Women's Health Tasmania chief executive Jo Flanagan says there are layers of social issues stopping women - particularly those living with chronic illness or disability - from seeing a GP.

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