A man with an infected open wound gave up waiting for medical help after seven hours at Southland Hospital’s emergency department.
By the time he was see
An elderly woman died following a 70-minute wait for an ambulance after her double-amputee husband called for help.
A coroner has described the circumstan
The number of patients waiting too long to see a specialist doctor has more than doubled in Bay of Plenty and Canterbury in the past year - and other parts
I’ve gotta be honest with you that I’m feeling a little punch drunk digesting the latest stories and statistics about our health system under pressure.
Apparently we've been doing ops in our hospital theatres on the weekends now for more than twenty years.
Who knew?
Probably the doctors, nurses, and te