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There are calls from the senior doctors' union for an explanation from Health New Zealand as to what caused the most recent IT outage to hospitals in the upper North Island.

The computer systems outage happened over a 12-hour period between Wednesday night to Thursday morning.

Health NZ executive director for the northern region Andrew Brant confirmed the outage had affected several hospitals.

"Health New Zealand hospitals in Te Tai Tokerau, Waitematā, Auckland and Counties Manukau experienced an IT outage yesterday impacting some clinical and operationa

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