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The risk of being left carrying the can for errors due to resource constraints Key

Gaeline Phipps

Gaeline Phipps

GP with head in hands
Doctors should formally raise their concerns if feeling unable to cope with the workload

MEDICOLEGAL

A tribunal decision sees a UK doctor working in a resource-constrained environment struck from the medical register. This could happen in New Zealand, and there is a precedent, says Wellington barrister Gaeline Phipps

Many of us battle daily with understaffed bedlam. Fancy a spot of corridor medicine, anyone? – commentator Following the death of her patient, Ha