Health facts of interest

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%

13^th:   Wairarapa                  76%                  67%

Bottom: Capital & Coast    51%                  46%

2. Cancer treatments within 30 days of diagnosis:

1^st:    Tairawhiti                   93%                 100%

3^rd:    Wairarapa                   93%                  93%

Bottom: Northland              73%                  79%        

3. Immunisation for children at 24 months:

1^st: Canterbury                     91%                 92%

4^th: 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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