Kate Hawkesby: Things are dire at Starship

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 4, 2021 · 2m

If I had a dollar for every parent contacting me about the state of things at Starship, I could make a large donation to the Hospital.

It's dire in there at the moment. There’s a severe lack of funding, staff, beds, you name it, they’re screaming out for it.

I just can’t fathom how the country’s only specialist children’s hospital can be so over run and in such dire need… and yet the government does nothing. I know it’s a DHB issue, and that model's questionable to say the least in terms of the way it handles funding, but it still doesn’t make sense to me that it can get this woeful, and the…