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Services will be brought back online in a "careful and phased" approach, Waikato DHB bosses say. This video was first published on May 23, 2021.
“It’s not like we’re going to flick a switch and it’s going to start again.”
The IT outage made some jobs vastly more consuming for staffers, who are pulling out the stops.
“Instead of documents being able to be emailed from one department to another, [a clinical nurse specialist] has walked something like 10 kilometres in a day, just hand-delivering the referrals and other medical documentation,” executive director of hospital and community services Chris Lowry said.