Last Budget, the Minister of Finance gave $83 million to St John Ambulance and that has helped fill the cracks. It has definitely helped save lives but the system is broken: first responses all mixed up with primary healthcare; rural people wait for ambulances or they catch InterCity buses to get to a hospital. Some people in Balclutha are waiting to catch a bus to Dunedin, and then their appointment is cancelled on the way. They have to travel all the way through, then get another InterCity bus to go back, and then wait for another appointment. Rural communities are finding it hard to get doctors, nurses, and midwives, and rural communities are struggling to attract talent, because, for some people, not having healthcare close by is a deal-breaker. In South Dunedin and Milton, different scenario but the same outcome: people waiting for weeks, sometimes months, for cancers to be even diagnosed—and those are cancers that could or should have been treated; lives that could have been saved or prolonged; and lives lost due to a system which has been fragmented and underfunded for decades. 