Andrew Little: Health Minister says health system can't be completely blamed for patient death at Middlemore Hospital

The Health Minister says the health system can't be completely blamed for a patient death at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital. An independent inquiry was launched after the death of a patient who had left Middlemore's ED after being told it would take hours to be seen. The five-page document released to the Local Democracy Reporting Service describes the hospital as dysfunctional, overcrowded and unsafe. But Andrew Little told Mike Hosking the report found the woman probably would have died, no matter how the hospital responded. “That particular case was unpredictable and unavoidable.” LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.