{"id":500226,"date":"2026-06-28T23:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500226\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T23:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:19:14","slug":"act-accuses-doctors-of-wrongfully-signing-off-patients-as-unable-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500226\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT accuses doctors of wrongfully signing off patients as &#8216;unable to work&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Act Party is accusing some doctors of wrongfully signing off people as &#8216;unable to work&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under its newly announced welfare policy, the party would require all health and disability benefits to be issued by government-employed doctors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It says the number of people who are deemed not &#8216;work ready&#8217; has increased in the last three years, \u00a0despite the Government&#8217;s best efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Act Leader David Seymour told Mike Hosking that abusive behaviour and packed waiting rooms can pressure GPs to deem a patient &#8216;unfit for work&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Act Party is accusing some doctors of wrongfully signing off people as &#8216;unable to work&#8217;.\u00a0 Under its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[59784,249931,72390,3528,69835,111,43,139,69,2443],"class_list":["post-500226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-acc","tag-actpolicy","tag-davidseymour","tag-doctors","tag-gp","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500226","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=500226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}