Health Minister on flawed emergency department data

From Morning Report, 7:10 am on 10 March 2023

The National Party is seeking assurances that public data on cancer and acute care is not riddled with mistakes after the fiasco over Emergency Department wait times.

Te Whatu Ora has apologised for publishing badly flawed information showing dramatic improvements in how fast patients in some regions were being seen.

It also suggested the likes of Northland had a 99.7 percent rate of seeing patients within six hours. The target is 95 percent.

Corrected data will be published today.

Health Minister Ayesha Verrall spoke to Corin Dann.