'Utterly tragic': Newborn's death and why dialling 0800 was a factor - coroner
Coroner says baby's death eight hours after birth "utterly tragic".
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Latest from Counties Manukau DHB
Auckland hospital 'imploding': Patient with typhoid fever slept in car due to lack of beds
Hospitals around NZ are being hit by a perfect storm of issues.
Seismic risk assessments exposing widespread shaky hospital issue
Hutt Hospital is one of many medical facilities deemed at risk of a seismic event.
Experts 'baffled' by falling rheumatic fever rates in Auckland
Covid-19 restrictions may have achieved what years of Government initiatives could not.
Man discharged from mental health facility now missing
Jamie Way's sister said her brother was not dangerous but likely suffered from paranoia.
10,000 allied health workers walk off the job
Today's strike comes after more than 18 months of negotiations.
Life-threatening endometriosis delays, surgery wait times up to three years
On average, women in NZ wait 8.7 years from onset symptoms to be formally diagnosed.
'We live in a man's world': NZ lags behind other countries in women's health
"When we look at systems of all sorts around the world we see inequality for women."
'I did start to feel suicidal': Endometriosis patient's agonising wait for treatment
"Not because I wanted to die, but because the pain was so unbearable," 20-year-old says.
Scaffolder learns he has lost both arms after electric shock
Jahden Nelson has been heavily sedated for 15 days.
Scaffolder who lost both arms after electric shock conscious, off life support
'It shouldn't have happened."
'Safe and sensible': The schools sticking with mask mandates
Some schools join doctors' and scientists' call for classroom mask mandate over winter.
'Atomic bomb in his body': Young dad's arms amputated, fighting for life after electric shock
A high voltage current ripped through Jahden Nelson's body as he dismantled scaffolding.
Omicron surgery delays frightening for cancer victims
Thousands of planned surgeries have been delayed due to the Omicron outbreak.
Study shows ethnic disparity in ear infection treatment for Māori, Pacific kids
Targeted screening is needed for Māori and Pacific children in South Auckland.
Covid cases peak in Canterbury, expect a 'slow and steady' decline
The CDHB area has the highest number of active cases in the country.
Hospitals nationally offer cash rewards for staff working nights
Hospitals nationally are resorting to cash rewards to get staff to pick up night shifts.
Live: Person in 20s one of 9 Covid deaths today - 14,463 cases, 1000 people hospitalised
The person in their 20s who died was NZ's second youngest Covid-related death.
Thousands of Covid-hit Kiwis seeking welfare support every day
Ninety per cent of people are contacted within 24 hours, according to the ministry.
Covid-19: Hospitals put most care on hold, staffing issues dire
Nurse says incentive payment has not fixed Auckland's dire hospital staffing shortage.
Exclusive: Exhausted nurses 'falling over each other' for nightly $500 Covid bonus
'We are so short staffed in every department that management are working on the floor.'
DHB board member roles scrapped three months before term ends
Time is ticking for DHB board members who won't be needed come July 1.
'More than worst case scenarios': Auckland hospitals see overwhelming Covid cases
Auckland hospitals dealing with more Covid patients than forecast, even in worst estimate,
Doctors, technicians filling in as nurses struck down
Staff absences reach a critical point at Middlemore Hospital as Omicron surges.
Omicron outbreak: More than 800 staff from one DHB off work
All of Auckland's district health boards are now postponing some non-urgent operations.
'Children and young people' dominating Omicron cases in South Auckland
Dr Matire Harwood is seeing a rapid rise in positive results in young people.
South Auckland primary schools consider onsite vaccination clinics
Counties Manukau DHB has asked primary schools to allow vaccinations on their sites.
'Outdated language': DHB removes baby formula pamphlet after online fury
'We agree that the document uses outdated language,' DHB retracts pamphlet.
Scrapping MIQ for overseas arrivals would 'free up badly-needed resource': DHB report
MIQ rooms could be used to help people who can't isolate at home, the DHB report states.
'Terrible time' to be restructuring health sector - Reti
Health spokesman says DHBs still missing agreed deadline to improve safe staffing.
Obese Kiwi teens with 'no other hope' get weight-loss ops
More than 130 Aucklanders aged under 30 have had bariatric surgery in the past five years.
Hundreds of shooting victims treated at Auckland's hospitals amid surging gun violence
"What do we do here because our families are being caught in the middle."
Returnee who escaped from hospital back in quarantine after handing themselves in
Authorities have given an update on a person who escaped Middlemore Hospital with Covid.
Location of recent returnee unknown after escaping from hospital
The person was transferred to Middlemore Hospital from a MIQ on Sunday.