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Whanganui Regional Health Network said it was dealing with a projected shortage of GPs in Whanganui.
In the latest portrait of the GP workforce by the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, 50 percent of the local GPs who responded said they would retire within five years.
The survey showed only 4 percent of GPs are Māori - a statistic the College of GPs described as unacceptable .
Chairperson of the College s Māori GP group, Dr Rachel Mackie, said the lack of Māori doctors arose from long-standing disadvantage and inequity issues.
The health system was rife with disadvantage for indigenous people, Mackie said.
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