19 May 2025

Patient advocates respond to govt boost to after hours clinics

From Checkpoint, 4:26 pm on 19 May 2025

After hours clinics are being hailed by the government as a solution to over-stretched and under-pressure emergency departments. But while the government unveiled it's plan to spend 164 million on expanding the clinics - there was no detail on how much it would cost patients using the services. Checkpoint has spoken to one woman who's after hours clinic visit in Palmerston North cost her $260. Jimmy Ellingham reports.