You'd be hard-pressed to find a couple who've had as big an impact on their local community as Peter and Joan Wakeford.

The formidable duo has been serving and advocating for the health needs of Tamworth residents and the wider region for over five decades.

Both recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), it was a fortunate day when they decided to make the move from Sydney to Tamworth.

After ditching an aeronautical engineering degree to study medicine , when Peter arrived in 1967 he was only the city's second consultant physician and only the third in the region.

Over the ensuing years, his list of achievements includes honorary gastroenterologist at Tamworth hospital, physician-in-charge of nuclear medicine at the hospital, honorary consultant physician at a raft of sm

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