{"id":611285,"date":"2026-09-25T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611285\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:44:13","slug":"dannevirke-community-hospital-pauses-new-patient-admissions-as-health-nz-seeks-staff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611285\/","title":{"rendered":"Dannevirke Community Hospital pauses new patient admissions as Health NZ seeks staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Gywn said the priority was \u201censuring people continue to have access to safe healthcare services while THG works on a plan to stabilise its workforce and support the long-term delivery of services in Dannevirke\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Pausing new admissions to the hospital was a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">He said current patients would be looked after and maternity services would continue as normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Patient Voice Aotearoa\u2019s Malcolm Mulholland said he was confused by the development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt effectively becomes a patient-less hospital, I\u2019ve never heard of one of those,\u201d he told Checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">GPs were not referring patients to the hospital because of \u201cclinically unsafe practices\u201d, Mulholland said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">He did not know how many staff Health NZ would bring in and said THG should not retain the contract to run the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey need to kick them out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Hundreds had attended public meetings in recent nights, he said, and everyone was \u201csinging the same tune\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gywn said the priority was \u201censuring people continue to have access to safe healthcare services while THG works&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[125812,806,24140,1259,37251,134,527,2241,117,111,139,69,1597,147540,27950,1516],"class_list":["post-611285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-admissions","tag-as","tag-checkpoint","tag-community","tag-dannevirke","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hospital","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-patient","tag-pauses","tag-seeks","tag-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611285","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=611285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}