Frank Frizelle: Christchurch Professor of Surgery suggests health planners are flying blind due to a lack of data

A suggestion health planners are flying blind due to a lack of data. An editorial in the latest Medical Journal raises questions about why we're not appropriately measuring Unmet Secondary Elective Healthcare Need. That's otherwise known as non-urgent hospital treatment. Christchurch Professor of Surgery Frank Frizelle told Kate Hawkesby without the information we can't plan. He says a lack of this sort of data has led to the situation we're in now, where we can't get cancer or urgent cases treated because there's not enough infrastructure. LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.