@ellianafansuport3251
Theres a lot of ungrateful patients too,complaining all the time,complaining about the meals,proves,they're not as sick as they say.
@jomassey4207
Ask the greedy CEOS earning $5 -8 million per year to donate half of their salary to hospitals. I'm sure after a year or 2, things would steadily improve.
@lazarusdigital
I've been waiting years for my shoulder surgery. Years.
@jeanrichardson2044
A target of 6 hours in ED was set over 15 years ago, and was impossible to meet. Since then, a number of interventions have been made, such as discharge lounges, discharge nurses. However we are treating sicker patients, using more interventions, such as access to emergency dialysis, and more intensive investigations. Patients are older and often live alone in less than desirable circumstances. Hospitals these days, are not just treating the sick, but are often social workers for whole families with the role reaching into the community.
@ie1961
6 hours? Try up to 48. ED is the barometer of the entire system, so draw your conclusions. It was always challenging to work in one, but during my last stint I found myself in an ugly state before going to work - sweating, shaking hands. Which was entirely rational, because nothing stops the place from being overwhelmed, with a crucial delay costing a life. I've never been like this in my entire life. The problem is always the same (I've been in the system for nearly 40 years): the number of sick people is a small proportion of the voting population. You can steal money from the health system and divert it to your pet projects without immediate consequences, unlike failing to fix power outages. Until voters grow up and realize that they need to react to professionals reporting distress and moral injury, nothing will change.
@djpomare
Hospital delays lead to death... reminds me of the of the 600 who died in the first year that Shipley brought in hospital waiting lists.
@ShimoniMe
I live part-time in NZ and their healthcare is abysmal. Why not start with GOOD dental care. So many diseases stem from bad teeth. All you have to do is look at Kiwi's teeth to understand how bad basic healthcare is in NZ. And the wait time for surgeries is incredibly slow, patients suffering along the way. My 86 year old friend fell and waited NEARLY 2 WEEKS FOR A SIMPLE XRAY. Visit NZ, but don't seek healthcare! Free healthcare is not free.
@kungfutzu3779
but just yesterday they told us there were enough nurses now so they were getting rid of frontline staff who do things like changing bed linen, now you're telling us we can't do that fast enough & it's causing blockages?
@catlady5359
Healthcare is a money pit. There’s never enough money. Too many managers waste time and money (the most precious aspects of healthcare) undoing and redoing the same “solutions” over and over. Staffing (medical and administrative) is often stretched to the limit while the number of patients consistently rises. It really seems impossible to run a balanced healthcare system.
@cilla06
The government needs to spend more money on health and education and stop wasting money changing what it already has in place; that costs money they should make it better, surely?
@raukawa4732
NZ isn’t what it once was.
@elizabethfairlie8296
But are patients being discharged when they shouldn't so the targets are met. There's a need to get ALL the ducks in a row including Drs who are telling people to go to ED because they're under pressure.
@jacksmith7726
When they have only one doctor at night in ED you are going have delays who knew
@oliverbailey4204
The elephant in the room is, the mandates. Thousands fired, for absolutely nothing
@angelab9819
The System stocking With Even deputy commissioner Rose Wall alllowing a medical center to investigate there own negligence. There is a clear risk to public safety being covered up. I sadly have to say we are all at risk of negligence in New Zealand don't trust your doctor
@Kiwi-ICU-RN
I went from working in ICU to working in a Te Whatu Ora GP practice. The problem is access to primary health care. Often the EDs are overwhelmed with non-acute presentations. I can say this definitively, because where I work we have one point of entry for the hospital and GP. If you walk into ED during business hours, then you’re triaged by one of the practice nurses, and we can channel you to either ED or Urgent GP. We have a lot of people coming with things that aren’t really urgent all the time, or that have been six months in the making because GP apt waits are a month 🤷🏼♂️
@brentsummers7377
4:55 'how long does it take for a bed to be cleaned..' and yet in the last few days we've learned that the people doing jobs like that are being made redundant. This just puts more tasks onto nurses. The ridiculous waiting times at emergency departments and rationed surgery are caused by chronic under funding. Even terms such as 'elective surgery' are gas lighting by the politicians. And I wonder how many National and Labour (so called) politicians have their own comprehensive medical insurance? My guess would be 99.4% of them.😂🤣
@moanahughes3593
Yep, "Whatu Ora" is taking the can for it (PM was HOT to change that name, but it'll do while we privatise/piratise/americanise the health system) The only wellness providers are Hauora Services and Independent Practitioners 😉
@elaber5
Perhaps if the consultants worked 5 days a week and the management didn’t insist on meetings and then meeting about meeting and the meetings about the outcomes of the meetings about the meetings there would be staff on duty and these incidents wouldn’t happen?
@joyandrews3804