Category Archives: Patient Transfers

Ambulance writes off $2.9 million

At Johns Ambulance service in New Zealand has had to write off $2.9 million in bad debts from a quarter of people invoiced for ambulance treatment that aren't paying. St John treats 400,000 patients each year and about 185,000 callouts result in an invoice for a part charge. New Zealanders are charged $75 or $84…
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Daily Operations in Auckland

Supercare4u.com has been zoom zoom all day this Tuesday. I personally have been on the road since 0900 and will still be operational at 2200 tonight. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we provide wheelchair transfers to PHAB meetings so this results in the later finish. I am just waiting on a call from Auckland Hospital for…
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Sunday Supercare4u.com

It's a wet Sunday in Auckland. We have operations all day with multiple vans sharing the workload . At Supercare4u.com we find that the weekends involve transfers relating to church services ,family gatherings and entertainment .
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The End of the Age of Growth

As we operate Supercare4u.com around Auckland it is clear that the country has an unbalanced equation when it comes to the increase in our ageing population. Last week Waikato University demographer Natalie Jackson's presentation about ageing to Local Government New Zealand's annual conference in Hamilton this week was a sobering look into the future that…
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