{"id":303974,"date":"2026-02-27T00:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/303974\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:05:13","slug":"auckland-and-northland-hospitals-hit-by-major-it-outage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/303974\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland and Northland hospitals hit by \u2018major\u2019 IT outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe PACs system <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/auckland-and-northland-hospitals-hit-by-major-it-outage-chaos-in-eds\/5SSKJLPBIRHQNL5WXA3YKQMW6M\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/auckland-and-northland-hospitals-hit-by-major-it-outage-chaos-in-eds\/5SSKJLPBIRHQNL5WXA3YKQMW6M\/\">impacted by the outage is a critical function of our hospitals<\/a> which clinicians rely on to access images so they can assess and treat patients needing urgent treatment in EDs, in operating theatres and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe outage means clinicians and radiographers must communicate by text and phone to pass on vital information from scans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWithout a doubt this will slow down treatment, compromising care,\u201d Fitzsimons said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">Fitzsimons said the government needs to immediately review funding for health digital services and IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">A Health New Zealand spokesperson said the outage was resolved quickly without affecting patient services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDuring the outage standard back-up processes were used for the reviewing of radiology images.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">The spokesperson said services were fully restored within two hours and patient care was not compromised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">-RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe PACs system impacted by the outage is a critical function of our hospitals which clinicians rely on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,51,3595,22191,3594,3274,702,661,111,43,139,1067,69,39995,25347],"class_list":{"0":"post-303974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-by","11":"tag-ellen","12":"tag-hit","13":"tag-hospitals","14":"tag-it","15":"tag-major","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-northland","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-odwyer","22":"tag-outage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303974","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=303974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}