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Editorial: Health NZ treats transparency as a buzzword on a whiteboard
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Doctor, ex-TVNZ presenter ordered to pay $148k for 'misleading' Covid-19 videos
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Napier urgent care to stay and be enhanced after community pushback, won't include a doctor
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