When no doctors were available after hours, Dargaville Hospital was making use of telehealth service and transferring the sickest patients to Whangārei. Photo: RNZ / Peter de Graaf
Dargaville Hospital staff are under pressure. For many months they're struggled to find doctors to work there, especially overnight.
And Peter says often after 5pm there's no doctor on duty in the ED or in the 12-bed ward.
If there's some kind of crisis and nurses need support or advice they have to rely on telehealth.
Peter also looks at whether buy-outs are on the way for flood-hit Far Northerners, 18 months on from Cyclone Gabrielle.
And is Kerikeri about to lose its gum tree skyline?.
