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Sandy Richardson: Study reveals differing wait times and staffing issues across Emergency Departments
A mismatch in the workload, structure and staffing numbers of the country's Emergency Departments.
They're revealed in a study published in today's New Zealand Medical Journal.
The problems differ between bigger and smaller hospitals.
Staffing is the main issue at larger urban hospitals - having enough doctors on at any one time; while at regional ones - space and ED beds are the biggest problem - then staffing if there's an ED surge
Median wait times range from 13 minutes to more than an hour and a half.
College of Emergency Nurses chair Sandy Richardson told Tim Dower we need to recognise…
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