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Apology over cardiology list accepted The National Health Board has apologised for wrongly claiming in a draft press release that Dunedin Hospital's cardiac surgery waiting times were "among the worst in New Zealand". The statement was withdrawn and did not appear in the final release after cardiac surgeon and Southern District Health Board chief medical officer Richard Bunton emailed the board expressing "considerable offence" and "dismay" at the statement.

tiffany and co outlet He said Southern's waiting list statistics were among the best in the country. Dunedin had the highest intervention for cardiac surgery in New Zealand, carrying out more public procedures per head of population than anywhere else. Its waiting list performance was well within what was set out in the Minister of Health's clinical network, performed to a high level, and was reviewed weekly, he said.

tiffany & co outlet This is revealed in material released to the Otago Daily Times under the Official Information Act relating to the lead-up to the announcement earlier this month that an NHB team was to assess systems at Dunedin Hospital. In a draft media release, the cardiac surgery waiting times were listed as one of the issues which had prompted the assessment.

In his email to NHB deputy director Michael Hundleby, Mr Bunton said systems reviews, "if correctly carried out for the correct reasons and if they result in better delivery of health care then there can be no argument".

tiffany jewelry outletAt the end of his letter, referring to cardiac surgery, he said "with all due respect, another time-wasting review is neither indicated (there is clearly not an issue) or warranted". Mr Hundleby, in an email to Mr Bunton, said he understood the offence and dismay Mr Bunton had taken at the draft. "Something got lost in the translation and certainly the language used was not what we intended. tiffany outlet

I'd like to personally apologise for our error." In response to Otago Daily Times' questions, Mr Hundleby said when the draft was being prepared the Southern board, on one booking indicator, was behind the other four cardiac centres and this had been translated in the draft to a broader statement. "Southern pointed this out and we changed it, which of course is the point about sharing drafts. tiffany rings

" Asked if the inclusion of the erroneous claim in two early drafts indicated the national board's own systems might be called into question, Mr Hundleby said it was legitimate to include an area where it appeared the board was performing poorly against other boards when a systems' review was planned. It would seem curious not to look at that, he said. tiffany earrings

However, it seemed there had been a " blip" where Southern's waiting list had peaked above the maximum number allowed and that was what had led to the statement in the draft. Mr Bunton had accepted his apology. What had been released to the Otago Daily Times showed the incomplete internal workings of both the national board and Southern on the joint terms of reference, he said. The material forwarded by Mr Bunton to Mr Hundleby showed that at the end of the first week in May, Southern District Health Board was the only centre to have carried out more cardiac surgery than planned. tiffany bracelet