Middlemore Hospital
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Sep 7, 2026
Nicola WrightHOST
I'm Nicola Wright.
Nicola WrightHOST
Emergency department nurses at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital say they're being pressured to work when sick.
Nicola WrightHOST
They say staff are already under significant pressure as the hospital deals with high demand.
Nicola WrightHOST
Bless and Tom reports.
Naima LeahySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I can always come back to them and, yeah.
Christina ParaskosHOST
Staying in Aotearoa, emergency department nurses at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital say they are being pressured to work when sick.
Christina ParaskosHOST
They say staff are already under significant pressure as the hospital deals with high demand.
Christina ParaskosHOST
RNZ Asia's Blessin Tom reports.
Dean BedfordCORRESPONDENT
Earlier this year, the government put an extra $25 million towards extra beds and staff recruitment to prepare for winter.
Dean BedfordCORRESPONDENT
Health New Zealand says at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, they're redeploying staff and offering overtime shifts to address the high number of patients at its emergency department.
Nicola WrightHOST
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Nicola WrightHOST
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Hilary ButlerGUEST
Most of them got sent home.
Hilary ButlerGUEST
But something must have triggered one of them because she had also worked in Middlemore Hospital as well as Auckland Hospital in the 40s and early 50s.
Hilary ButlerGUEST
And she had worked with a doctor whose name was Dr. W.N. Abbott.
Hilary ButlerGUEST
He was using something called...
DionGUEST
And you know, I needed to come and represent Middlemore and So yes, I was speaking with the prime minister, which actually wasn't the first time that I'd met him.
DionGUEST
I met him before that when he came to Middlemore Hospital to tour one of our facilities.
DionGUEST
And then I talked to his minister of health back then, who is a different minister of health than what he has now.
DionGUEST
I was able to talk to them again about ways that we could use funding to help women and give postnatal resources for them.
Dionne Mills-SilikGUEST
And then I decided, which I already knew I was going to do, that we decided to move our three children, my husband and three children, to New Zealand in 2021.
Dionne Mills-SilikGUEST
And since in New Zealand, I have been what we call an ONG, obstetrics and gynecology consultant at Middlemore Hospital, which is the busiest hospital in all of New Zealand, probably all of Australasia is what I've heard quoted before.
Dionne Mills-SilikGUEST
And then about a year ago in June, I became the head of obstetrics at Middlemore Hospital.
Dionne Mills-SilikGUEST
I also have gone back to some of my private gynecology roots.
Dionne Mills-SilikGUEST
So three years ago, I opened my own practice where I do private gynecology as well.
Johnny SutherlandCORRESPONDENT
Look, I'll save you the gory details of what happened next, but William assured me that the shock set in and quite soon after a few expletives followed.
Johnny SutherlandCORRESPONDENT
Eventually found himself at Middlemore Hospital and there wasn't enough of his original thumb to stitch back together because usually you do that, put it on ice, get it on straight away.
Johnny SutherlandCORRESPONDENT
But he told me that the doctors there said, look, we can remove one of your toes.
Johnny SutherlandCORRESPONDENT
It's quite a clean cut right to the base of his thumb and connect it to where your thumb used to be.
Liz GregorySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I guess, caught up with their present, and I know that Gloria Vale is saying, give us time, we want to make improvements, but when you're talking about child safety, I think that it is appropriate.
Mark LeishmanHOST
Health New Zealand says it's bringing on additional staffing at Middlemore Hospital to deal with the high demand for care from seasonal illness in the community.
Mark LeishmanHOST
There are over 450 presentations to the ED in the 24-hour period from midnight on Wednesday, just dozens short of the highest record of 494 for this year.
Mark LeishmanHOST
Our reporter Lucy Shear has more.
Jean EdwardsCORRESPONDENT
Gloria Vale has been contacted for comment.
Karen McCarthyHOST
Health New Zealand says it's bringing on additional staffing at Middlemore Hospital to deal with the high demand for care during seasonal illness in the community.
Karen McCarthyHOST
An emergency department doctor says there were 103 patients in the ED at quarter past 11 last night, just short of the record of 109 last year.
Karen McCarthyHOST
Vanessa Thornton from Counties Monaco Health says 457 people requiring medical care were went to Middlemore's ED in the 24 hours from midnight on Wednesday.
Moana Lydia SasiniPANELIST
Speaker.
Moana Lydia SasiniPANELIST
When he has cut the number of nurses at Middlemore Hospital by 74 over the past two years, is it any wonder nurses are saying, quote, "We're sinking quite quickly because people are so sick," unquote?
Matt DooceyPANELIST
Mr.
Matt DooceyPANELIST
Speaker, on behalf of the Health Minister, what I say nurses are saying through the turnover rate under their watch it was 11.7%, now it's down to 8.4%.
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