{"id":590595,"date":"2026-09-05T02:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590595\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T02:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:58:16","slug":"review-after-another-patient-found-dead-in-waikato-hospital-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590595\/","title":{"rendered":"Review after another patient found dead in Waikato Hospital bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

A review has been launched into how a patient died in a bathroom at Waikato Hospital. <\/p>\n

Health New Zealand confirmed the patient’s death, saying they “passed away unexpectedly” in the bathroom on a surgical ward in mid-August. <\/p>\n

“Our deepest sympathies are with the patient\u2019s family,” said Health New Zealand’s Waikato district acting group director of operations, Dr Gary Hopgood. <\/p>\n

“Whenever an unexpected death occurs in hospital, a review is initiated to establish the circumstances, and this event has triggered such a review. <\/p>\n

“We are not able to provide further details ahead of the completion of that process,” he added. <\/p>\n

Hopgood said the ward was fully staffed when the man died. <\/p>\n

In late June, a man died in a toilet at the hospital’s emergency department<\/a> after reportedly waiting more than nine hours to be seen.<\/p>\n

An initial review into that death<\/a> found it to be an “acute unexpected incident”.<\/p>\n

“The review did not identify that additional monitoring would have changed the outcome in this case,” the review said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A review has been launched into how a patient died in a bathroom at Waikato Hospital. Health New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9001,134,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-590595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590595","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=590595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}