22 Nov 2022

Te Whatu Ora on trouble at Wellington emergency department

From Morning Report, 8:11 am on 22 November 2022

A Wellington mother says she had harrowing experience at city's the hospital's emergency department earlier in November.

The woman who we are not naming to protect her daughter's privacy says she was shocked at how busy the emergency department was when she took her daughter to the ED with pneumonia.

Nurses were run off their feet and every cubicle and corridor was full of people being treated.

When she remarked to one that the system appeared broken, the nurse took out the card with Andrew Little's official contacts on it, saying she should let him know that.

Te Whatu Ora the interim director for Capital and Coast and Hutt Valley district John Tait spoke to Corin Dann.