A report has flagged serious concerns about Middlemore Hospital's Emergency Department.
The review was commissioned to look into the death of a woman after she left Middlemore ED without being seen.
The woman turned up to the hospital in June with a headache but left a short time later in the face of huge delays and later died.
The independent review found only half of all patients are seen within six hours.
However, it could not say whether the woman would have survived if she had been seen by staff. Kate Allan is the New Zealand chair of the College of Emergency Medicine and is an ED specialist.
She talks to Rowan Quinn.
