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Health New Zealand has confirmed another major technology outage, this time for hospitals in the lower North Island.
A clinician working in one of hospitals called the situation shambolic, while the medical specialists union said crumbling technology systems were putting both staff and patients at risk.
A range of clinical and administrative systems were down for at least six hours on Thursday, days after a widespread IT outage affected the Southern district for more than 12 hours.
Health NZ said the outage was not related to hacking or to the Southern district outage, and services continued to operate safely throughout the day.
But the healthcare worker, who RNZ agreed not to name, said the inabili
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