{"id":15057,"date":"2025-09-22T05:25:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15057"},"modified":"2025-09-22T05:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:25:23","slug":"health-minister-simeon-brown-announces-100-million-for-hospital-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15057","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister Simeon Brown announces $100 million for hospital upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has announced a $100 million boost to upgrade clinical spaces and key infrastructure at hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Simeon Brown said the investment was aimed at providing resilient hospitals that could deliver timely and high-quality care, but Labour said the announcement was a &#8220;reannouncement&#8221; of funding already in the budget, and it was for routine maintenance and upgrades hospitals required all the time.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrades programme would be delivered through two streams.<\/p>\n<p>The first stream composed of 21 local projects across the country, aimed at expanding and modernising clinical spaces, and supporting services, and the second was a remediation programme focused on strengthening infrastructure and reducing the risk of disruption to clinical services.<\/p>\n<p>Upgrades would factor in local priorities and would include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased clinical space in emergency departments<\/li>\n<li>New transit lounges<\/li>\n<li>Additional clinical spaces<\/li>\n<li>Laboratory refurbishments<\/li>\n<li>Additional car parking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;At Manukau Health Park, a new oncology infusion centre will almost double treatment capacity and improve access to cancer care for the Counties Manukau community,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;With more infusion chairs, consultation rooms and support services, the centre will also expand beyond breast cancer to provide treatments for conditions such as respiratory and bowel cancers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every project will make a real difference for patients and staff &#8211; whether that means shorter emergency waits, faster cancer treatment, more timely elective surgery or improved access to services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has announced a $100 million boost to upgrade clinical spaces and key infrastructure at hospitals across the country. Health Minister Simeon Brown said the investment was aimed at providing resilient hospitals that could deliver timely and high-quality care, but Labour said the announcement was a &#8220;reannouncement&#8221; of funding already in the budget, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15060,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057\/revisions\/15060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}