Fourteen staff members at Ngā Wai Ngāro have been forced off work after being assaulted by patients.
Palmerston North Hospital's new mental health ward, Ngā Wai Ngāro.
Content warning: This story mentions suicide
Spike in assaults on staff when patients moved into new Palmerston North Hospital mental health ward
Under-staffing cited as one reason; new layout much bigger
Figures revealing the spike follow damning coroner's reports into the service.
Assault numbers spiked to 47 in March before dropping again in April.
A person is in Middlemore Hospital with serious injuries following an early morning assault at a Manurewa property.
Middle-class patients and their families are among those driven to rage by long waits and dehumanising care in corridors, the…
Hospital staff raised repeated concerns to managers over ‘inadequate’ staffing, but ‘no changes were made’
The Albany office closed for a day while staff debriefed after the incident.
More than 200 ambulance handovers at Wellington Hospital took longer than 30 minutes in January, with four waits exceeding two…
