Little Difference To Ambulance Cases
(New Zealand Association) AUCKLAND, January 5. The closing of the emergency service at North Shore Hospital today apparently made little difference to ambulance cases, although some private individuals may have had to make the longer journey to Auckland Hospital for treatment.
The Auckland Hospital Board has been forced to discontinue casualty services at nights and week-ends at the North Shore Hospital 'because of staffing difficulties. Today was the first day the service was closed. Although no figures are available yet, the Superin-tendent-in-Chief of the Auckland Hospital Board (Dr W. E. Henley) said tonight that an analysis was being done to determine how many patients who could have been dealt with at North Shore were having to come to Auckland. “It is going to be very difficult to get accurate figures for an assessment,” he said. The St John Ambulance Association said the closing of the emergency service had not made much difference. This was because quite a number of cases which went first to North Shore were later transferred either to Auckland or Middlemore Hospital.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31879, 6 January 1969, Page 1
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