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Auckland hospitals overloaded: Patients waiting in corridors as demand skyrockets

Auckland hospitals overloaded: Patients waiting in corridors as demand skyrockets 5 May, 2021 09:19 PM 6 minutes to read Doctors reported patients being left in corridors and ambulances queuing outside EDs. Photo / File Emma Russell is a health reporter for the New Zealand Heraldemma.russell@nzherald.co.nz Sick and injured patients are being left in hospital corridors and ambulances are queuing outside Auckland emergency departments as demand continues to skyrocket. Read More Mothers with high-risk pregnancies have occasionally been transferred out of the Auckland area to give birth, because no beds are available in the region. Middlemore, Auckland City and North Shore Hospitals sent an alert to ambulances on Monday night warning that they were nearing maximum capacity, the Herald can reveal.

Poverty and high health needs driving GP shortage in south Auckland

But he said if people don’t have access to a doctor their health will deteriorate and they may then need emergency care. “The current model with primary health care provided by GPs and corporates isn’t cutting it. There are just too many of these pressing issues relating to access.” A report to the Counties Manukau District Health Board this month by chief executive Margie Apa highlighted south Auckland’s shortage of GPs and the impact it was having on primary healthcare. “The complexity and growth of our population is disproportionately served by a smaller GP workforce compared to other regions in NZ,” Apa said.

GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – How a leadership culture conflict escalated in New Zealand s public health system

Earlier this month the Democracy Project hosted by Victoria University published my first article of a two-part series on a very bureaucratic coup against the chief executive and the rest of his senior management team at Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB). Engagement vs bureaucratic centralist cum command and control leadership conflict It is often the case that conflicts are driven by personality clashes. Despite perceptions and assertions to the contrary, primarily this escalating dispute involved conflicting leadership cultures between the Ministry of Health (MOH) and CDHB. The former was bureaucratically centralist and top-down while the latter had a stronger emphasis on engagement with both others in the Canterbury health system and its own workforce.

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