Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
This story should dominate the election debate
Mōrena. This election campaign has struggled so far to focus on one issue or find a major policy conflict that resonates and ignites intense public debate. This week’s revelations that Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital has had to suspend cancer treatments for at least a week because of staffing shortages could be the story that does it.
There has been a drumbeat of news about Emergency Department (ED) over-crowding, blowouts in wait times, deaths in ED toilets, closures of rural clinics and an ongoing postcode lottery for treatments through the year. But sometimes a particular event or…
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