In 1997 Helen and Neville Anderson invited a group of friends to spend weekend with them at a Raurimu lodge. That trip led to one of NZ's worst mass shootings.

Five homicides within 15 months involving acutely unwell mental health patients have led to an overhaul of health systems following a critical review.

Doctors' strike at 18 DHBs to disrupt care for thousands of patients

Some will wait to 2020 to join scheme

A 24-year-old man remains in intensive care following an alleged hit and run in Whanganui yesterday.

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

Alarming administration errors led to confusion over which of an elderly woman's legs needed surgery and her being sent home, dying days later.

The departure of Capital Coast District Health Board chief executive Ken Whelan because of pressure to cut costs will not be the last, Labour MP Ruth Dyson says.