{"id":113798,"date":"2025-11-02T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113798\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:14:09","slug":"government-announces-140-new-hospital-beds-to-boost-capacity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113798\/","title":{"rendered":"Government announces 140 new hospital beds to boost capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>2 Nov, 2025 01:09 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Health Minister Simeon Brown said the rapid-build projects will provide for 140 new beds nationwide at Middlemore Hospital, Waikato Hospital, Wellington Hospital and Nelson Hospital. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Four hospitals will open new wards during the second half of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Health Minister Simeon Brown said the rapid-build projects will provide for 140 new beds nationwide at Middlemore Hospital, Waikato Hospital, Wellington Regional Hospital and Nelson Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         They will open at the same time as a new ward at<br \/>\n         Hawke\u2019s Bay Hospital that was announced in February.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">Major rebuilds were currently under way in Wellington, Nelson, Whang\u0101rei and Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MbfQjTgmSESMkkDykl\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThese new wards will make a real difference for both patients and staff. They will ease pressure on emergency departments, support faster admissions and discharges and improve patient flow right across the hospital,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 2 Nov, 2025 01:09 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1131,2246,694,69003,11231,12509,2837,3011,266,2964,2241,3274,117,111,43,139,69,5493,8466,61,57284,1533],"class_list":["post-113798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-1131","tag-2246","tag-announces","tag-beds","tag-boost","tag-capacity","tag-during","tag-four","tag-government","tag-half","tag-hospital","tag-hospitals","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-open","tag-second","tag-to","tag-wards","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}