She wasn't supposed to survive after just 12 weeks in the womb. Now Maya Gourlay is 7.

International research suggests half could have been avoided or minimised.

A petition is calling for a change to how hospital parking is handled.

District health boards are making their final preparations for the three-day strike by unionised resident doctors that starts tomorrow morning.

The new State Services Commissioner was once one of the highest paid public servants but is now promising a "conservative approach" to pay rises for chief executives.

The Government's new plan to get help for obese kids is proving a turn-off to many parents.

West Coast had highest rate

Doctors say 2-year-old Chelsey Cheng has only a 20% chance of reaching her 5th birthday.

Government reshuffles fever programme money to boost awareness in Auckland

The preliminary list of members who will serve on the Auckland region's three DHBs has been released.

Private obstetrician says elective caesarean a good option for many women

COMMENT: Mental illness is on the rise. Figures reveal crisis referrals from 2010 to 2015 have increased, often substantially.

Some 500 DHB staff have walked off the job today in protest of what they've described as an "over-stretched workforce" that's putting patients at risk.

Health professionals are walking off the job in Auckland this week in protest against "an over-stretched workforce unable to meet its patients' needs".

Dr Judith Heather Gill, 58, appeared in Auckland District Court this week facing 157 charges of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception.

Hospitals in north and West Auckland have had to postpone non-urgent surgery to cope with the winter's first surge of acutely unwell patients.

District health boards that do heart surgery cannot produce reliable comparisons of individual surgeons' patient complication and death rates.

The national organ donation service at the Auckland DHB has been put on notice by an official-information watchdog after it was caught out deleting public records.

The noise from major construction is upsetting patients at Auckland City Hospital, who are being offered earplugs to block out the banging and crashing.

Nearly one in three bags containing human body parts taken during healthcare procedures have leaked on their way to disposal.

Hundreds of health workers are being bitten, head-butted and assaulted while they look after sick, injured and distressed patients.

Diagnostic Medlab will have just one laboratory, Medlab Central, in Palmerston North. The long-established Auckland community laboratory that lost most of its state funding in a contracting wrangle will close next year.

One person has been injured after an explosion in a lift in the Westpac building on lower Queen St in downtown Auckland this morning.

A man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia tried to kill his brother-in-law days after being released from a mental health unit at Auckland Hospital.

Auckland District Health Board staff have blundered by sending a journalist an envelope filled with personal information and are now apologising to the people involved.

A health authority has taken charge of an Auckland rest home after planning and management failings amounting to "evidence of neglect".