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Voter R08 · one of nine places

Dunedin: patient needing regional specialist care

“I live in Dunedin, have a long-term health condition and rely on specialist appointments. I want to know what the new hospital will actually deliver for patients in Otago and Southland.”

questions written for them
4
answers collected
32
AI assistants
4
asked from, and nationally
Dunedin
01 · What they asked

4 questions, each written as this voter would ask it

The issue each question is about, and how much it matters to this voter. Open any question to read the assistants' answers in full, asked nationally and from Dunedin.

  • PF167

    Healthcare

    I live in Dunedin, have a long-term health condition and rely on specialist appointments. I want to know what the new hospital will actually deliver for patients in Otago and Southland. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What is actually open and treating patients at the new Dunedin Hospital now, what is still being built or moved, and what are the expected dates for the different stages?

    8 answers

  • PF168

    Healthcare

    I live in Dunedin, have a long-term health condition and rely on specialist appointments. I want to know what the new hospital will actually deliver for patients in Otago and Southland. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties differ on the remaining Dunedin Hospital build, its services and staffing, and which commitments go beyond the current funded programme?

    8 answers

  • PF169

    Healthcare

    I live in Dunedin, have a long-term health condition and rely on specialist appointments. I want to know what the new hospital will actually deliver for patients in Otago and Southland. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties propose to improve specialist waiting times for patients in Otago and Southland while the Dunedin Hospital project is being completed?

    8 answers

  • PF170

    Cost of living

    I live in Dunedin, have a long-term health condition and rely on specialist appointments. I want to know what the new hospital will actually deliver for patients in Otago and Southland. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What support do parties propose for people elsewhere in Otago and Southland who have to travel to Dunedin for specialist treatment?

    8 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 32 answers this voter received, 27 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 10 of 32.

Answers naming each party, out of 32

  • National23 of 32 answers
  • Labour24 of 32 answers
  • Greens20 of 32 answers
  • ACT15 of 32 answers
  • NZ First17 of 32 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori10 of 32 answers
  • Opportunity3 of 32 answers

  • ChatGPT

    1 of 8 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori

  • Gemini

    3 of 8 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori

  • Google AI Mode

    1 of 8 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori

  • AI Overviews

    0 of 8 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
03 · Issue by issue

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues

Each row is one of this voter's issues. Each column is a party. The number shows how often the party came up in the answers to this voter. The coloured line under it shows whether what the AI said about the party was positive, neutral or negative.

Toggle assistants on or off to compare them, and click any number to see more detail about the responses.

Showing all four assistants · 32 answers

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues: for each topic and party, the share of answers naming the party and how the claims about it split, across all four assistants.
TopicNationalLabourGreensACTNZ FirstTe Pāti MāoriOpportunity
Healthcare
Cost of living
04 · Asked from Dunedin

What changed when the question was asked from Dunedin

The same question, word for word, asked nationally and from Dunedin. For this voter's main question, none of the 4 assistants named a different set of parties.

NamedNot namedNamed only from DunedinDropped when asked from Dunedin

Parties named in PF167 (Healthcare), asked nationally and from Dunedin
PF167 · HealthcareAsked nationallyAsked from Dunedin
ChatGPT

0 parties named1,290 words

  • National, not named
  • Labour, not named
  • Greens, not named
  • ACT, not named
  • NZ First, not named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named

0 parties named763 words

  • National, not named
  • Labour, not named
  • Greens, not named
  • ACT, not named
  • NZ First, not named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named
Gemini

0 parties named332 words

  • National, not named
  • Labour, not named
  • Greens, not named
  • ACT, not named
  • NZ First, not named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named

0 parties named360 words

  • National, not named
  • Labour, not named
  • Greens, not named
  • ACT, not named
  • NZ First, not named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named
Google AI Mode

0 parties named307 words

  • National, not named
  • Labour, not named
  • Greens, not named
  • ACT, not named
  • NZ First, not named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named

0 parties named427 words

  • National, not named
  • Labour, not named
  • Greens, not named
  • ACT, not named
  • NZ First, not named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named
AI Overviews

0 parties named498 words

  • National, not named
  • Labour, not named
  • Greens, not named
  • ACT, not named
  • NZ First, not named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named

0 parties named482 words

  • National, not named
  • Labour, not named
  • Greens, not named
  • ACT, not named
  • NZ First, not named
  • Te Pāti Māori, not named
  • Opportunity, not named
05 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

The Dunedin patient asks an unusually testable question: what is treating patients now? PF167 ChatGPT distinguishes a completed outpatient building from a functioning replacement hospital; Gemini NZ describes the outpatient building as having opened in August and places services under a heading about current treatment. The official August announcement says patient care would start in October. The distinction between ceremony and clinical operation is consequential for this question.

AI Mode describes a phased transition, while AI Overviews says patient care is scheduled for October. The local Gemini answer is more careful about phased chronology, as the regional and accuracy chapters document. This is a concrete case of answer disagreement and setting-associated variation, without establishing that location caused the difference.

The three additional questions cover capacity, workforce and costs. A building opening does not establish that a particular specialist service has moved or that waits will fall. For a patient, a useful answer must connect the project milestone to actual service instructions and avoid displacing current appointment information with a political narrative.

From the study's case study of this voter. Each extract opens the full answer with the passage highlighted.

06 · Sources

Where the answers to this voter came from

The websites each assistant drew on when it answered this voter, and what kind of publisher they are. Pick an issue to see the websites for that question.

ChatGPT

44%party websites

Had sources8of 8

Showed you a link8of 8

  1. 1beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 8 answers
  2. 2healthnz.govt.nz, government, cited in 8 answers
  3. 3act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  4. 4labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  5. 5national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 6 answers
  6. 6greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  7. 7nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  8. 8health.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
  9. 9odt.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  10. 10budget.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers

Gemini

23%government

Had sources8of 8

Showed you a link0of 8

  1. 1infrastructurepipeline.org, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3health.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5b2bnews.co.nz, other, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6cancer.org.nz, other, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7centralotagonz.com, other, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9heiahurumowai.org.nz, other, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

51%news

Had sources8of 8

Showed you a link0of 8

  1. 1rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 7 answers
  2. 2healthnz.govt.nz, government, cited in 5 answers
  3. 3odt.co.nz, news, cited in 5 answers
  4. 4labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  5. 5beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6infrastructurepipeline.org, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8thespinoff.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  9. 91news.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

31%news

Had sources8of 8

Showed you a link0of 8

  1. 1healthnz.govt.nz, government, cited in 7 answers
  2. 2rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 6 answers
  3. 3beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 4 answers
  4. 4facebook.com, social media, cited in 4 answers
  5. 5nzdoctor.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  6. 6nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  7. 7greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  8. 8infrastructurepipeline.org, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
  9. 9odt.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  10. 10hdrinc.com, other, cited in 2 answers
  • Party websites
  • Government
  • News
  • Comparison sites
  • Advocacy groups
  • Businesses
  • Social media
  • Other

A website counts once per answer, however many times the answer used it. Counts come from the sources the scan attached to each answer: 32 of this voter's 32 answers have at least one. We assigned a publisher type by hand to every website in a top-ten list; any other website counts as Other.