Waitemata Health

The Herald reports on the woman who had to wait for 30 hours in A&E at Waitemata before getting a bed.

She spent 13 hours on a drip in the waiting room, and then 17 hours on a trolley before getting a bed and then surgery the next day.

The Government claims it has increased doctor numbers at the hospital by 78%.  But the problem wasn’t doctors, but beds. How can health funding almost double and there not be enough beds in A&E?  Or at least capacity elsewhere.