Systems Are Overstretched from the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interpretive Description of Disabled People's Access to Healthcare and Disability Support in New Zealand.

“Being fat and also being a woman has definitely significantly influenced my experiences of healthcare, and how that plus being disabled, and also mentally ill, because I have anxiety and depression, how all of those things together can significantly influence someone’s ability to want to access healthcare in a pandemic, and their ability to access healthcare.” (P6) Prior to the pandemic, as with many health systems globally, health workforce shortages and increasing service demand stretched the New Zealand health and disability support system’s ability to respond to ‘business as usual’ situations.

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