Frank Frizelle: Christchurch Professor of Surgery suggests health planners are flying blind due to a lack of data
Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Newstalk ZB
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Show Notes
A suggestion health planners are flying blind due to a lack of data.
An editorial in the latest Medical Journal raises questions about why we're not appropriately measuring Unmet Secondary Elective Healthcare Need.
That's otherwise known as non-urgent hospital treatment.
Christchurch Professor of Surgery Frank Frizelle told Kate Hawkesby without the information we can't plan.
He says a lack of this sort of data has led to the situation we're in now, where we can't get cancer or urgent cases treated because there's not enough infrastructure.
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