Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule says without a prosecution, councils can focus on finding the cause of the Havelock North water contamination

Doctor's failings included not putting the man in a mental health unit, an investigation found.

Some 700 lives a year are being saved in hospital emergency departments by the controversial six-hour target, new research indicates.

Vulnerable woman tells of feeling 'yuck' after motel encounters with mental health nurse who exploited her problem with alcohol, prosecutors say.

A Kiwi man saw his GP five times for a worsening cough. The day after his fifth appointment, he died.

Dentist's failings included not taking enough x-rays.

Radiology service makes changes because of case.

Overseas-trained practitioner found in breach of patient's rights.

Bacterial infection cause of death, post-mortem finds.

A doctor has been found to have failed a patient who later became a tetraplegic after he forgot to contact the man about his abnormal blood results.

A young disabled man died in a residential care home after instructions for his care were ignored and he was left alone in bed.

A midwife's competence has been questioned after she failed to arrange urine testing for a woman who was later diagnosed with a life-threatening condition that necessitated an emergency caesarean birth.

An elderly woman with dementia was given four times her proper dose of antipsychotic medication for nine days before anyone noticed the error.

A lengthy legal battle could take an emotional and financial toll on the family of a brain damaged Wellington boy: Legal expert.

The capital's health board has been blamed for a young boy's brain damage and quadriplegia because of meningitis that was missed by two doctors.

A two-year-old Wellington boy severely brain damaged after a hospital twice failed to diagnose him, remains in hospital suffering from a chest infection.

An Auckland high school has lost a court battle to keep a child with Asperger’s out of the classroom.

Green Bay High School is going to one of the country's highest courts to fight to keep a teenager with Asperger's out of the classroom.

A newborn girl died soon after a horror delivery, for which a trainee specialist has admitted to being "out of my depth".

A baby girl died following a difficult birth in which a registrar was "out of her depth" and undertook the delivery without required supervision.

The father of a child given 10 times the normal dose of codeine says his distraught wife can't forgive herself for not stopping the nurse with the "huge, big syringe".

Two registered nurses have been found to be in breach of health codes for administering 10 times the recommended dose of codeine to a child at a private hospital.

"I could not believe that two people who were supposed to care for me could possibly be so horrible," the patient said in her complaint about the midwife.

A self-employed midwife who had an affair with her patient’s partner has been found to have seriously breached the ethical code of midwifery.

A woman having trouble getting pregnant discovered a surgeon had inserted a contraceptive device in her without her consent.

A nurse who used the same needle on two patients and failed to tell the second patient of the error for days has been referred to the Nursing Council.