Some hospitals say assessing life expectancy of patients is impossible and won't provide these. Photo: 123rf.com MBIE wants the supporting evidence in applications for an emergency allocation to skip the queue for managed isolation. But in some cases hospitals won't provide life expectancy information, arguing it is too difficult to say. When Kimberley Dreyer's father was placed in the high dependency unit in Waikato Hospital on life support late last month, she scrambled to get from Queensland to be with him. Under emergency allocation criteria brought in the following week, she could apply to skip the 10-week queue for managed isolation spaces and begin the process within seven days.