{"id":14281,"date":"2025-07-15T05:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14281"},"modified":"2025-07-15T05:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:11:07","slug":"auckland-ambulance-patients-being-diverted-to-non-hospital-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14281","title":{"rendered":"Auckland ambulance patients being diverted to non-hospital clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambulances are facing delays dropping off patients to to Auckland emergency departments as all of the city&#8217;s hospitals are under &#8220;significant pressure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John says there had been delays handing patients over to Auckland City and Middlemore Hospitals on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It was working with HealthNZ\/Te Whatu Ora and hospitals to manage the situation, including using telehealth and taking patients to non-hospital clinics.<\/p>\n<p>Some emergency departments were so busy, some ambulance patients were being diverted to non-hospital clinics.<\/p>\n<p>Some patients were being taken to other clinics and using telephone assessments, St John Auckland operations manager Andy Everiss said in a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>However, ambulance teams were focused on making sure those who had &#8220;time critical needs&#8221; were not delayed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Patient safety is paramount, and we are working collaboratively with hospital staff to optimise the process of transferring the care of patients who need to be admitted to ED,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have told RNZ the city&#8217;s emergency departments have been extremely busy in the last few weeks as winter illnesses hit hard.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure at Auckland City hospital comes despite a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/557761\/cramped-auckland-hospital-emergency-department-gets-much-needed-makeover\">recent upgrade<\/a>\u00a0to increase clinical and waiting areas.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency clinicians have spoken out for years about the pressure they are under, winter and summer, but always urge all patients who are seriously unwell to come to the hospital no matter how busy it is.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambulances are facing delays dropping off patients to to Auckland emergency departments as all of the city&#8217;s hospitals are under &#8220;significant pressure&#8221;. Hato Hone St John says there had been delays handing patients over to Auckland City and Middlemore Hospitals on Monday afternoon. It was working with HealthNZ\/Te Whatu Ora and hospitals to manage the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14283,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14281\/revisions\/14283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}