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Article: Waiting list ill crowd hospital; List patients crowd ED
- Article from:
- The Press
- Article date:
- May 2, 2005
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Christchurch Hospital's overcrowded emergency department is facing
added pressure from hundreds of waiting-list patients seeking urgent
attention for their conditions.
Even though many of the waiting- list patients are deemed by the
emergency department (ED) to be sick enough to need immediate
admission to hospital, they still do not get the operation they need,
a new research project has found.
Instead, they are stabilised and sent home to wait longer, risking
a return to hospital in an even worse condition.
The report has been seized on by those who argue that the waiting
list system is backfiring by denying timely surgery to the sick.
It comes as Christchurch's ED faces steadily ...