Ministry of Health nationwide figures show middling and good performances by Wairarapa District Health Board on some key measurements applied to the country’s 20 DHBs.
1. Emergency Dept stays _ number of patients treated within the key six-hour treatment period:
2022 2023
1st: Tairawhiti 96% 95%
13th: Wairarapa 76% 67%
Bottom: Capital & Coast 51% 46%
2. Cancer treatments within 30 days of diagnosis:
1st: Tairawhiti 93% 100%
3rd: Wairarapa 93% 93%
Bottom: Northland 73% 79%
3. Immunisation for children at 24 months:
1st: Canterbury 91% 92%
4th: Wairarapa 81% 87%
Bottom: Tairawhiti 82% 68% (post-Covid)
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Police figures reveal supermarket crime surge – March 2024
Wairarapa’s seven supermarkets reported 264 incidents of theft and staff abuse to local police in the 12 months ended November 2023. Most involved theft, a few abuse of staff.
Police figures show the worst offending rates occurred in Masterton; the least – just one incident in the year _ in Martinborough.
The breakdown of the total provided by police for Nov 2022 – Nov 2023:
Masterton New World 96 incidents logged with police;
Masterton Pak ‘n Save 76;
Masterton Countdown 49;
Carterton New World 28;
Featherston Fresh Choice 7;
Greytown Fresh Choice 7;
Martinborough P & K 1 (one).
North Island Foodstuffs is reported to have logged some 4,719 retail crime incidents with police in the three months to December 2023 – a 52 percent increase on the September 2023 quarter.
Foodstuffs is the parent company of New World, Pak ‘n Save and Four Square.
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