Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand is the New Zealand government's national health service, consolidating the public health system under a single entity.
Overview
Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand is the New Zealand government's national health service, consolidating the public health system under a single entity. It operates hospitals and clinical services and relies on extensive IT infrastructure, making outages and cyber threats highly impactful to patient care and data security. The recent outage underscores the cybersecurity risk environment affecting essential health infrastructure.
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Major IT Outages Disrupt Hospitals Across New Zealand
Health New Zealand reported significant IT outages affecting hospitals in both the South and lower North Islands. These outages disrupted access to critical patient health records and various clinical and administrative…
2 articles · Updated January 22, 2026
Recent Intelligence Reports
- Health NZ confirms another major tech outage — Rnz.Co.Nz · January 15, 2026