2026-07-23 - Hospital IT problems the result of years of under-investment, experts say and 9 more stories
This episode includes 10 news blocks. The latest in a series of outages took five hospitals across the Waikato region - Waikato, Thames, Te Kūiti, Tokoroa, and Taumarunui - offline for 11 hours on Wednesday, caused by a connection problem with the data centre. The number of deaths so far is equivalent to one every 3.5 days, with Water Safety NZ predicting more than 100 drowning deaths for the year. International evidence has shown immunisation programmes reduces hospitalisations from respirator…