Southern cancer treatment waitlist reaching 3 months or more
9 Mar, 2021 07:16 PM
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The Government sets a target of 62 days for a person to have their first specialist appointment after a cancer diagnosis. Photo / NZH
The Government sets a target of 62 days for a person to have their first specialist appointment after a cancer diagnosis. Photo / NZH
Otago Daily Times
Southern cancer treatment waiting times are creeping back up towards three months or more, prompting the Cancer Society to write to the district health board to plead for urgent action to help affected patients.
This is the second time in three years the Otago-Southland division of the society has tackled the Southern District Health Board over waiting times, having also raised the alarm in mid 2019 as patients were regularly waiting more than three months to be seen by specialists.
Livestock trucks turned away from Hawke s Bay meatworks amid unprecedented worker shortage
8 Mar, 2021 10:20 PM
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Worker shortages related to Covid-19, competition from the horticulture sector and increased sick leave and minimum wage are being blamed for delays at meat processing plants. Photo / Supplied
Worker shortages related to Covid-19, competition from the horticulture sector and increased sick leave and minimum wage are being blamed for delays at meat processing plants. Photo / Supplied
Livestock already loaded onto trucks are being turned back in Hawke s Bay because workers are choosing to pick fruit over labouring in the meatworks. Craig Hickson, of Progressive Meats in Hastings, said his company was
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Hawke s Bay s coast back to normal - aftershocks could derail that
7 Mar, 2021 11:53 PM
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Hawkes Bay Today
By Louise Gould
The coast is clear after Friday s severe earthquake near the Kermadec Islands triggered tsunami warnings and evacuations for Hawke s Bay – at least for now.
Hawke s Bay Civil Defence Emergency Management Group controller Ian Macdonald said until Saturday morning there was still activity around the Pacific and the world as a result of the 8.1-magnitude quake.
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Macdonald advised the public to remain careful around the water up to 72 hours after a big earthquake and tsunami warning.
Clive River was flowing the wrong way and seemed abnormally high for low tide on Saturday, March 6. Photo / Screenshot