The ambulances at the bottom of our cliffs are full

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey · Feb 17, 2025 · 5m

Long stories short, the top six things in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Tuesday, February 18 are:

* A NZ Herald investigation published yesterday into the performance of EDs has found almost a third of a million patients were not seen within the recommended times in the first half of last year;

* ED doctor Gary Payinda pointed in his substack post yesterday at international research showing overcrowding and ‘bed blocking’ resulted in the deaths of one in every 83 patients stuck in EDs for more than eight hours, with the risk of death in an ED here rising…