EMERGENCY MEASURES: Behind and beyond the tide of misery flooding our emergency departments

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EMERGENCY MEASURES: Behind and beyond the tide of misery flooding our emergency departments

Liane

Topham-Kindley

liane@nzdoctor.co.nz

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 04:34 PM

The Ministry of Health regularly reviews emergency department admissions. From the data collected it appears most people who got to ED need to be there

Liane Topham-Kindley investigates the rising tide of attendance in our hospitals’ emergency departments and asks how it can be pushed back

Waikato Hospital’s emergency department was overwhelmed this winter as patients waited in corridors, hundreds were directed to primary care and nurses, John Bonning, Long waits for a hospital bed are approaching the serious levels seen in Australia, emergency physician John Bonning says

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