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New Zealand’s only intensive care unit for children has hit peak capacity, with staff working overtime and non-emergency surgeries for the country's youngest patients being delayed. To help meet demand there are plans in motion for a total $40 million expansion of the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) that would see 10 new beds built in time for next year’s winter, if it can secure the current $8 million funding shortfall. Meanwhile, unit staff are working hard to service the health needs of the 1.25 million aged 16 or younger, with just 22 beds. PICU doctor John Beca says for those i...

Your playlist will load after this ad They’re concerned that when their visas expire, they’ll be subject to the violence that’s mired Myanmar since the February coup. Source: 1 NEWS Tensions have been rising since the military overthrew the country's democratically-elected government in February this year. So far, 564 people have been killed by security forces, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, and 2667 have been detained. One former military man told 1 NEWS as the coup happened, he watched on, ashamed,...

Your playlist will load after this ad For Dr Megan Bailey, the stress of working long hours took its toll. Source: 1 NEWS The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2020 workforce survey shows almost half are thinking of leaving in the next ten years. The findings released to 1 NEWS show of the more than 5000 GPs the college represents, around 14 per cent intended to retire within two years - up from eleven per cent in 2018. Forty-nine per cent said they would retire in the next ten years - up from 20 per cent in 2018. College Pr...