Kate Hawkesby: Our health system is in dire straits and it's not even winter yet

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Mar 9, 2023 · 2m

So we learn this week what we already knew, but now have confirmation of - our health system is in dire straits.

And it's only March. It's not even winter yet.

I worry that we've dropped the ball on fixing it by being too slow to react when staffing, in particular, was first being flagged as an issue.

We took far too long to get midwives, nurses and doctors onto the residency green list. And by the time we did, guess what? No one wanted to come. They'd already gone elsewhere, found other jobs, other countries that did have their doors open in time, other markets where health care systems…