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Peter Jones: Te Whatu Ora Acute Care Clinical Lead says the pressure in emergency departments is mostly caused by an increase in urgent cases

Published: Nov. 30, 2023, 7:49 p.m.

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The problem of people turning up to emergency departments with non-emergencies may have been overstated.\\xa0

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Medical experts writing in today\'s New Zealand Medical Journal says the pressure hospital EDs are under isn\'t due to too many people turning up unnecessarily.\\xa0

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They say it\'s mostly due to an actual increase in urgent cases.\\xa0

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One of the experts\\u2014Te Whatu Ora Acute Care Clinical Lead Peter Jones\\u2014 told Mike Hosking that we have low numbers of presentations per head of population, compared with other countries.\\xa0

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He says our issue is mainly getting the people that should be there to the right place, to the care they need.\\xa0

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