Health Minister Andrew Little on planned nurses' strike
Midwives and nurses gear up to walk off the job on Thursday.
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Man utters first words five weeks after he was seriously injured at a North Shore bar.
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She says she lost 5kg after waiting five days for a feeding machine in hospital.
Midwives strike: Eight-hour rolling strikes begin today
Midwives in Auckland and Northland will be the first to walk off the job today.
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Exclusive: 30,000 overdue for hospital treatment
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Four new Covid cases in MIQ as mass vaccination event draws to a close
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Covid-infected UN worker flown from Fiji in 'dedicated, secure' ICU
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Lengthy wait times at Auckland mass vaccination event
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Rest home complaints: Unexplained bruising, leg fractures, bad food and cockroaches
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RSV virus outbreak: 'Record-breaking' numbers flock to after hours clinics
RSV virus outbreak: Massive surge of patients to after hours and emergency departments
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'It looks horrible': Hospitals flooded with breathless babies battling RSV virus
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Nurse who failed to check patients, give them medicine has registration cancelled
Nurse put her young patients at risk by lying about the care she gave to them.
Babies with burning temperatures forced to wait on hospital floor
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Auckland CBD overdose: ESR testing of substance underway
The trio who took an illicit substance in the CBD are recovering in hospital.
Baby death: Mum traumatised after newborn boy drops on hospital floor
A mum was told she wasn't giving birth. Then her precious baby fell to the hospital floor.
Some Covid vaccine centres could pause to balance supply
There will be an update this afternoon on the quarantine-free travel pause with Victoria.
Childbirth tragedy: Friends, colleagues rally for man who lost wife, baby
Colleagues mourn for their much loved friend who tragically died during childbirth.
Live: 30,000 Nurses strike DHBs reduce services as staff walk out
Non-urgent surgery and outpatient clinics cancelled as nurses walk off the job.
North Shore Hospital plunged into darkness overnight, patients redirected
North Shore Hospital was without power for four hours overnight.
2020 stocktake found health IT systems vulnerable
The DHBs also lacked skilled IT staff to focus on security, a report found.
Cardboard car sells for $10,000, proceeds go to Starship
It was made using an old TV box and cardboard from Warehouse Stationery.
DHB hack: 'A national crisis' - cancer patients could be sent to Australia
The Government must intervene to protect sick patients, Waikato cancer doctor warns.
Revealed: Auckland Hospital surgeons' pay tops $1m
The number of employees paid over $500,000 a year has nearly doubled in five years.
'Staff are burned out': Auckland hospitals overloaded, patients in corridors
Overload means patients in corridors or transferred out of Auckland, ambulances queuing.
'Our family is broken': Community rallies to help whānau of teen battling cancer
'Cancer is a horrible thing for your child to get.'
Missing babies: Scramble to track down children lost from health system
"Imagine if those babies have disabilities or special needs and we don't know about it".
'Obsolete' IT system at Auckland City Hospital to be scrapped
Integrating the dozens of IT systems across the health system will be a huge challenge.
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Patients who spend 12 hours a week hooked up to a life-saving machine upset at closure.