Waikato hospital overflow beds in treatment roomsDOMINICO ZAPATA/FAIRFAX NZ Increasing patient numbers have Waikato Hospital staff struggling to find beds for them. Patients face the possibility of being attended to treatment in family rooms as Waikato Hospital struggles to keep up with demand for beds. "When the hospital is full and there are no resourced inpatient beds available, allocation of patients may be done to closed beds, treatment rooms and nominated beds in corridor spaces on the wards," is part of the full capacity procedure statement on the hospital's intranet. He did concede that treatment rooms could be used. Moroney contended that $1.7 billion of funding removed from the health system by the government was to blame.

Source: Stuff November 17, 2016 03:06 UTC