More patients getting key health services

The latest results for the six National Health Targets show record achievements.
District Health Boards are focusing even more strongly on patients, and patients are benefiting from the Government's $1.5 billion extra funding over the past three years.

These achievements have undoubtedly been helped by the fact that district health boards employed an extra 800 doctors and 2000 nurses during the past three years.

Emergency departments recorded their best result ever. In the three months to the end of December, 238,000 New Zealanders turned up at hospital emergency departments, and 92 per cent of them were treated or transferred within the six-hour target.

And every cancer patient ready for radiation treatment started within the world gold standard of four weeks.

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