5:07 pm today

Wairarapa health centre relying on Give a Little

From Checkpoint, 5:07 pm today

A Wairarapa health centre is heaving with new patients and having to rely on Give a Little, sausage sizzles and sales of donated jam to stay in the black. First Health and Wellness Centre is a nurse led practice, that doesn't currently have a Te Whatu Ora funding contract. Run by a charitable trust - it provides casual and urgent medical care, including for patients that can't get appointments at their normal clinic or GP. The centre's clinical director Nurse Trish Wilkinson spoke to Lisa Owen.