Waikato Hospital

Well, so I think there's a couple of things.

So New Zealanders might not know this, but one of the most outstanding neurologists in the world is a guy called Dr. Matthew Phillips, who works at Waikato Hospital.

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Bit of background on me.

So I'm a clinical neurologist and the current director of neurology at Waikato Hospital in New Zealand, 760-bed hospital.

I have a bachelor's and master's in biology, as stated, and I did those in Canada, and I achieved my MD and, uh, specialist training in neurology in Australia.

I have no financial disclosures or conflicts of interest.

Emergency services were called around 10 past four this morning to Palmer Court.

One person was found dead inside the house, and St John transported another in a moderate condition to Waikato Hospital by helicopter.

People in a Bay of Plenty road say they feel they're under siege from Genesis Energy as trees are cut down ahead of installing electricity pylons outside their properties.

The pylons will connect the company's 136-megawatt Te Hori solar farm with a substation.

Mine is harking back a week or two in rural politics to when we were talking about health and the political risks incumbent governments face.

I mentioned then that the death of a patient in a waiting room at Waikato Hospital was one of those political moments that can really resonate with the public about a failed system.

my recommendation this week is the interview that patrick gower for stuff has had with the family of that man and and just the detail of how and why that happened made for very very interesting reading and it won't be comfortable for the system

My recommendation this week is the wrap up from the New Zealand Herald of all the little tidbits in the government's budget document dump.

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Tell you what, if you're sick in the Waikato, how about you try avoiding the ED at Waikato Hospital? 'Cause that doesn't sound like a place that's gonna be helping you much.

It turns out there's just revelation after revelation about this place.

Do you remember this is the place where the guy went in and he sat there for nine and a half hours, and then he went to the toilet and carked it? And then they were like, "Oh, there's nothing we could do about it" And then they turned up on Paddy Gower- Gower's show and they were like, "Oh yeah, maybe if he'd seen a doctor we could have saved his life" Which is what I want to hear, 'cause generally that's why I go to the hospital.

Mr. Watts says what Labor's promising could cost households an extra $400 a year.

10 new nurses are due to start work at Waikato Hospital's emergency department after recent scrutiny of the hospital.

Two patients have died within two months of each other in the hospital toilets.

One patient was found dead in the bathroom on a surgical ward in mid-August.

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Health New Zealand have said that a second patient within two months was found dead in a bathroom at Waikato Hospital.

The Meningitis Foundation is calling for a fully funded vaccination program for adolescents.

An Amazon cargo plane has crashed at Miami International Airport after overshooting the runway.

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A second patient within two months was found dead in a h- in a toilet at Waikato Hospital.

Health New Zealand has said the patient died in a surgical ward bathroom in mid-August.

Good afternoon, I'm Louise Pagonis.

A second patient within two months has been found dead in a toilet at Waikato Hospital.

Health New Zealand says the patient died in the bathroom on a surgical ward in mid-August.

A spokesperson, Dr Gary Hopgood, says the ward was fully staffed at the time.

More than 30 emergency department nurses at Gisborne Hospital will strike on Wednesday.

And a Waikato Hospital emergency department nurse says staff are working way beyond capacity.

People with flu needing hospital care have been climbing steadily for at least a month nationwide.

Nurses Organisation union delegate and ED nurse Tracey Chisholm says it's not unusual to see 300 people at ED per day waiting over eight hours in crowded waiting rooms.

We have a cupboard that has extra chairs in it so when we run out of chairs for the waiting room we can go and find some more chairs to squeeze in or people sit on wheelchairs or some people just get so tired and exhausted that they'll end up lying on the floor of an emergency department waiting room.

Ms Chisholm says Health NZ gave permission for Waikato Hospital to hire 10 more nurses after a patient died in the ED waiting room in late June.

She says one or two new nurses have been hired.

The country's climate research agency says this year's unusually warm weather is likely part of an overall global warming trend.