Here are some of the features of our health crisis. ED wait times are the worst in a decade. Two-hundred people, in April, waited more than 24 hours, and sometimes with tragic consequences. First specialist assessment: those who are waiting to even see a specialist are waiting more than four months—36,000. The surgical waiting list: those who have seen a specialist have been promised their surgery will be done in four months, doubling in the last 10 months. These are people with painful hips, painful knees. They struggle to walk to the toilet. They sleep at night with a bent knee because it's so painful. These are people with cataracts who are slowly going blind. Mr Little, this is what a health crisis looks like. 