{"id":603714,"date":"2026-09-17T23:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/603714\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T23:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:30:13","slug":"families-speak-about-the-reality-of-healthcare-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/603714\/","title":{"rendered":"Families speak about the reality of healthcare in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs from all parties have been confronted with some of the most devastating realities of the health system during a debate in Auckland last night <\/p>\n<p>Alongside frontline medical staff, they heard directly from a man whose cancer diagnosis was made through sheer luck and also can\u2019t access treatment here, and from daughter of Brent Horsburgh, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/07\/01\/wait-times-scrutinised-at-waikato-hospital-following-mans-ed-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">died in Waikato Hospital&#8217;s emergency department <\/a>following a nine hour wait. <\/p>\n<p>Also speaking was Gareth Hall, whose daughter Maddie committed suicide three-and-a-half years ago despite years of interactions with the health system<\/p>\n<p>Hall and patient advocate Malcolm Mulholland spoke to Breakfast about the debate and their experiences in the health system. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wtgh-suicide-helplines-depression-youthline-lifeline-TF4TWU3Z4FDGDOK3ACSK3EADTE.png\" alt=\"Where to get help.\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Where to get help. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including the King\u2019s warnings about AI, and an under fire Hyrox star finally apologises. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MPs from all parties have been confronted with some of the most devastating realities of the health system&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[134,111,43,139,69,135],"class_list":["post-603714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603714","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=603714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}