2020 stocktake found health IT systems vulnerable
The DHBs also lacked skilled IT staff to focus on security, a report found.
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The number of employees paid over $500,000 a year has nearly doubled in five years.
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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.
'It sucks': Dialysis patients devastated after closure of Auckland renal unit
Patients who spend 12 hours a week hooked up to a life-saving machine upset at closure.
A husband told to wait 8 weeks for urgent help, a new mum who died at home - the faces we failed
Families left wondering if their loved ones might still be here if they lived elsewhere.
Many Auckland GPs unable to vaccinate because of DHB rule
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Vaccine confusion: Teacher aide mistakenly receives text
"At first I thought it was spam".
Applications flood in for Covid vaccinators, call goes out to retired professionals
The NRHCC has had an encouraging response to its current vacancies.
Hospital overload: Patients forced to wait in the back of ambulance at EDs
The waits are occurring at Auckland, Middlemore and Christchurch hospitals.
Transtasman bubble: Employers hesitant over Australian trips
Doctors at Auckland Hospital have been told they cannot fly to Australia for business.
Auckland DHB chairman gets vaccine early, explains why
"There's no way in which we are preventing people ... getting access to the vaccine."
She went blind at 37. Others with diabetes are now at risk of losing their sight
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Exclusive: How 'vulnerable' hospital services will change
Services have been flagged as vulnerable: what that means, and how they could change.
Ambiguous discharge notes linked to woman's stroke
Woman stopped taking medication to reduce her risk of stroke after hospital stay.
How maternity services could change at Auckland Hospital after four mothers died
Radical changes could be on the way for maternity services at Auckland City Hospital.
Exclusive: Auckland DHB set to overhaul maternity services; investigations into deaths of mothers find problems
"Lack of access or co-ordination of care" was a notable finding in three of the deaths.
1700 Auckland kids wait in pain as Covid-19 aggravates dental backlogs
The crisis shows how weaknesses in the health system have worsened after Covid-19.
Sick Auckland MIQ patient transferred to hospital
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Warning after out-dated testing letter circulating on social media
Advice on an outdated Covid-19 fact-sheet is circulating offering wrong advice.
Health workers get early jabs to ensure no vaccine waste
Hundreds of frontline Auckland medical staff have received Covid jabs today.
90-year-old's 192m birthday plunge for Starship
"If it does some significant good for Starship, I shall be very, very happy."
Parents who decline vaccinations for kids - highest/lowest regions revealed
A Covid-19 vaccine information campaign will start this month.
Hospitals stretched for beds, spike in demand over holiday period
Middlemore is blaming the surge on post-holiday injuries and health checks.
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Foreigners responsible for $68.5m of hospital debt
Health minister says "it is the cost of being a compassionate country".
Vision loss, harm to newborn, cancer diagnosis delay linked to Covid-19 disruption
DHB reports show some patient harm incidents related to Covid-19 restrictions.
Doctor denied C-section: 'Why is the Ministry of Health controlling how we birth?'
Doctor who was initially denied a caesarean section claims it is every woman's right.
Aucklander saw psychiatrist to get C-section: Warns others 'robbed' of choice
"The psychiatrist produced a very compelling report supporting my decision."