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“When we have this kind of demand on our services it’s very tough on our staff who are working under enormous pressure and at the same time our patients with more minor illnesses and injuries have to wait longer than they should to be seen,” Barlow said. Whyman said clinical teams were working to improve the flow through the hospital to relieve the pressure on ED. Healthcare colleagues in urgent care facilities across the community had also experienced a surge in demand over the past weekend and yesterday, he said. A Stuff analysis of the data monitoring ED performance shows a sharp decline since January 2018 when the Government axed public reporting of District Health Boards (DHB) “shorter stay in EDs” target. ....
Hush Naidoo/Unsplash Nearly a quarter of GPs working in rural communities are over 60, and increasing numbers have their sights on retirement – a cause for concern for the College of GPs. Family doctors are closing their books to new patients in Christchurch and other cities as they struggle to recruit staff from overseas and meet growing demand. The Royal New Zealand College of GPs (RNZCGP) will discuss its concerns about the GP shortage with Minister of Health Andrew Little on Friday, about three months after first requesting a meeting. “It’s very rapidly reaching a crisis point in terms of the number of GPs indicating they are preparing to leave or cut back on what they are doing,” RNZCGP medical director Bryan Betty said. ....