Monday, 25 July 2022 14:12

Gong for rural GP

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Long-serving South Canterbury general practitioner Dr Gayle O’Duffy has received the Community Service Medal.


It was presented by the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners for her dedicated service to the Methven community.


The Community Service Medal recognises members who have made an outstanding contribution to general practice through work in their own communities. 

  
O’Duffy, originally from Queensland, Australia, has been a rural general practitioner in Methven for 39 years.


Over the course of her career O’Duffy and the team have developed the practice to meet the changing needs of the community.


College President Dr Samantha Murton says its rural general practitioners are such an important part of the workforce. “The skills and knowledge of this group are often very different to those of a GP who is working in a metropolitan or urban environment.


“Long-serving GPs such as Dr O’Duffy are crucial to their communities as they build trusted relationships with the whole whānau. In our country’s more isolated regions, GPs are often the only medical support in the community.”


O’Duffy has been a teacher for those who are training to become a general practitioner or rural hospital doctor and established a national remote rural peer group which is still going strong today for rural GPs.

 

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