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Politics Friday: MP defends claims Govt 'inherited' Hillmorton Hospital's failings

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Fri, 15 Aug 2025, 1:13pm
Hillmorton Hospital in Christchurch. Photo / George Heard
Hillmorton Hospital in Christchurch. Photo / George Heard

Politics Friday: MP defends claims Govt 'inherited' Hillmorton Hospital's failings

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九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 15 Aug 2025, 1:13pm

The Mental Health Minister's defending claiming his Government's inherited Hillmorton Hospital and its failings from the Labour-led Government of the time.  

A review of Canterbury's mental health services reveals significant failings, contributing to murders by patients in 2022 and 2024.  

Minister Matt Doocey told John MacDonald it's a fact.  

He says the report lays bare the state of Hillmorton in June 2022, and that is the reality of the system they inherited.  

Labour's Megan Woods told MacDonald this needs to not be about politics. 

She says it鈥檚 something they all have to take responsibility for, and it鈥檚 something they鈥檝e got to work on. 

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