9 May 2023

Surgeons fed up with lingering treatment lottery

From Morning Report, 7:18 am on 9 May 2023

Surgeons are frustrated there is still no national set of rules for who gets surgery and when, nearly a year after Te Whatu Ora was launched.

It replaced the 20 district health boards last year with the aim of ending the post code lottery for treatment.

Counties Manukau DHB says all non-urgent planned care that has been postponed due to Omicron will now be rescheduled as quickly as resources allow.

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The president of the Association of General Surgeons Vanessa Blair spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.