Focus Morning Bulletin: 8 August, 2022
Fresh concerns over our hospital buildings, how buy now, pay later schemes could be fueling addiction and cold plus fog hits the country in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald
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Hospital locked down after attack on ED worker
A 28-year-old man was charged with assault following early-morning incident.
What is Fentanyl?
Katie Harris examines fentanyl, a synthetic prescription drug 100 times more potent than morphine. Video / NZ Herald / Getty / NZ Drug Foundation
'Hell on earth': Woman with no mental illness kept in psychiatric hospitals for 40 years
Alison Pascoe sought $4m in compensation.
'Human cost of healthcare failure': Sick wait under leaking tent at North Shore ED
Babies as young as seven weeks waiting more than two hours outside in a tent.
Healthcare crisis widening equity gap, says Women in Medicine Charitable Trust
There is a risk of a catastrophic collapse of the healthcare workforce, doctors warn.
Man in serious condition after being shot in Rolleston
"Initial indications are that the incident involved people known to each other."
Is Middlemore's ED changing after patient death, or is it business as usual?
Health NZ says Middlemore's under-pressure emergency department is continuing to adapt.
Opinion: Sockburn killing - The buck stops with you, minister
The man accused of killing Laisa Waka Tunidau in random attack was in mental health care.
'We can be a voice for them': Green MP on 'heartbreaking' surgical mesh claims
MP's promise comes after Herald exposed investigation into claims women harmed by its use.
Focus: Merrissa Haa on her struggles with surgical mesh
Merrissa Haa, 47, is disabled after surgical mesh was inserted into her body without her consent. Video / Andrew Warner
Focus: Patient's surgical mesh 'rotting' inside of her
Sally Walker's insides were so badly damaged by surgical mesh that she was forced to get her bladder removed and her vagina sewn closed. Video / Dean Purcell
Mike Hosking: The dire situation in our hospitals is an irony of the Govt's making
OPINION: Will this turn out to be another of Chris Hipkins' "regrets".
'Code red' warning: Little says health system is 'managing'
Little says 'staff absenteeism' exacerbating pressures of Covid, flu and winter.
'Broken soul': Woman with fractures waits 11 days for surgery
Woman whisked to Waikato Hospital for urgent surgery endured lengthy wait in wrong ward.
Six Covid-related deaths and 4429 new cases today
There were 8638 new community cases & 24 deaths reported yesterday for the past two days.
Medical students describe power imbalances in practise
Medical students are finding it hard to speak up when rules are broken by superiors.
Wellington hospital wrestles with staff absences, vacancies and high turnover
The cardiac surgery waiting list is full, nurses are burnt out, some care has been paused.
Analysis: Hutt Hospital's improved earthquake status no saving grace
New documents reveal why district health board bosses are hardly jumping for joy.
'Unprecedented stress, chaotic': Emergency departments overcrowded
An emergency specialist says the situation is psychologically and physically exhausting.
Hutt mayor slams DHB for hasty communication over hospital quake risk
The DHB says patients and services will still have to be moved out of the building.
Nearly all NZ hospitals failing to meet Govt's ED wait time targets
18 out of 20 DHBs didn't reach the 95 per cent of ED patients seen within six hour target.
Focus: Hospitals under 'extreme pressure' as winter ills mount
As hospitals experience "extreme pressure" with "abnormally high" patient presentations, NZ Nurses Organisation co-president Kerri Nuku calls on the Government to act. Video / NZ Herald
'Healthy' 50yo woman dies with brain bleed. Delays at Middlemore Hospital's ED investigated
Delays lead to 'healthy' 50-year-old woman dying with brain aneurysm.
Hospitals at 'level of panic': 71 patients waiting for beds at Middlemore
The South Auckland ED saw more than 420 patients for the second night in a row this week.
Woman claims she sat in urine-soaked clothes for six hours in Wellington ED
Her catheter broke and she was told no one had the time to change her.
'He always chose to live, and to live fully': Man believed to be NZ's oldest dies aged 107
Pioneering heart doctor escaped death aged 28 in Karachi military hospital during WWII.
11 Covid deaths and 6291 new cases as NZ braces for subvariant spread
New case numbers remain steady at the start of the long weekend.
Memo to Health Minister: People get sick in winter
Christchurch Hospital is overrun with surgeries deferred.
Covid 19: Hospital defers surgery as occupancy tops 112%
Situation made worse by high levels of staff sickness.
'Made my week': Cystic fibrosis sufferer gifted money by stranger
The donor wanted Troy Watson to 'go and have fun' with his friends or family.
Auckland hospital 'imploding': Patient with typhoid fever slept in car due to lack of beds
Hospitals around NZ are being hit by a perfect storm of issues.
6369 new Covid cases in the community, 13 deaths
The seven-day average of new community cases is about 1000 down on a week ago.
Two hurt - one seriously - in Parnell apartment fire
Fire and Emergency received "multiple calls" about a fire in the three-storey building.