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

An Auckland woman has been charged with abandoning two children, one of them aged 14 months old at the time. The woman is accused

Thousands have non-urgent surgery or appointments delayed

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.

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 rules restricting enrolment of unconscious patients in drug trials without their prior consent will be reviewed - more than seven months after an outcry.

Pies are expected to be cut from public menus at the Auckland District Health Board as officials try to make their hospitals into models of healthy eating and drinking.

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.

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".

The widow of a man who died of a heart attack while on the Auckland DHB waiting list for treatment is unconvinced the board has changed enough to avoid similar occurrences.

Forget chips and dip after work on Friday - the Air New Zealand sports and social club has an $8 million property portfolio with which to treat workers.