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Dunne Applauds Rural Doctor Move - At Last!
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Dunne applauds rural doctor move - at last!
United Future leader Peter Dunne has applauded today's announcement by the Government that it is putting nearly a million dollars into helping overseas doctors complete their registration in New Zealand.
"It feels like only yesterday, in a pre-election TV debate before the 2002 elections, that I made the commonsense suggestion that the Government could help solve the rural doctor shortage by funding overseas doctors in this way.
"The idea caused quite a stir at the time and now, a mere five years later, the Government has acted and I applaud them.
"The trick from now on is to get the Government to adopt even more of United Future's commonsense ideas in a much more timely fashion," said Mr Dunne.
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