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Why our world-class trauma network is under threat

By Donna Chisholm
New Zealand Listener·
16 mins to read

Doctors fear 10 years of lifesaving advances are being put at risk by the absorption of the National Trauma Network into Te Whatu Ora. By Donna Chisholm.

When Jevon Puckett began his first shift as on-call consultant surgeon at Hawke’s Bay Hospital on February 21 last year, there were two sorts of cases he fervently hoped he would not have to see. One was a badly injured child. The other was a badly injured liver. “They are terrifying.”

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