A Microscopic View That Highlights Worsening Crisis In Public HospitalsThere are occasions when a crisis in a particular hospital department provides a microscopic insight into the wider crisis across all of Aotearoa New Zealand’s acute public hospitals. This conclusion is reinforced in the article by Newsroom journalist Amanda Gillies (31 July): Public hospitals descending into crisis. My only disagreement with the article is that our public hospitals are not descending into crisis. Public hospitals will not get out of this crisis until this leadership gets on the same page as its health professional workforce. He has lifted the rock off the wider continuing descent into further crisis throughout all public hospitals.