Heroic efforts in understaffed norm: How many full-time equivalents do we need, exactly?

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Heroic efforts in understaffed norm: How many full-time equivalents do we need, exactly?

Sarah Dalton_June 2020

Sarah Dalton

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It is all too easy to name half a dozen hospitals around the country with maxed-out EDs [image: Stephen Andrews on Unsplash]

Maxed-out emergency departments are just one sign of an undersized, understaffed and underfunded system, writes Sarah Dalton

The Northern Region Long Term Investment Plan of 2018 pointed out the need for another hospital somewhere in south Auckland Like so many of our h