A private hospital "woefully" failed a dying elderly man who was in intolerable pain.

A woman who sought hospital help for a cough and had an X-ray whose suspicious findings were overlooked, died from cancer nearly two years later.

A 46-year-old was not told of results which found she had a tumour that eventually killed her.

A patient is upset a doctor inserted an IUD without her consent during surgery.

A New Zealand doctor's improper care left a patient with arthritis and limited function in one of her fingers.

An optometrist who failed to diagnose a retinal detachment in a patient which can lead to blindness did not show "reasonable care and skill", the Health and Disability Commission has ruled.

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.

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.

The mother of a disabled teen who died after drowning in a bath says carers failed to use common sense and that ultimately led to

A caregiver has been found to be in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights.

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.

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 nurse faces a possible discliplinary hearing over her care of a 15-year-old boy who died while recovering from surgery done at the Greymouth's public hospital.

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.