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Last year's surplus prompted Dunedin-based WellSouth to deliver more services and that led to a deficit this year, the PHO’s 2021 annual general meeting heard.

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Health leaders have called for the “very vague” vaccination-exemption rules to be tightened up

Eighteen practising specialist GPs were among the 41 doctors publicly signed up to an anti-COVID-19-vax doctor group last week

Last year’s surplus prompted Dunedin-headquarted PHO WellSouth to deliver more services – and that led to a deficit this year, the annual general meeting heard today