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 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.

"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.

As Jo Griffiths lay in a coma in Wellington Hospital's intensive care unit, her teenage daughter was asked to make a call.

A dentist who left a patient with a piece of snapped equipment in his root canal has been criticised by the deputy health and disability commissioner.

Two teens feared they could die at any moment after a pathologist initially got the cause of their father's sudden death wrong - a mistake that went uncorrected for almost five months.

Rest home staff who left an elderly woman's broken hip untreated for several days have been ordered to apologise and will be reviewed by the Nursing Council.

Three general practitioners have been ordered to apologise after an overweight smoker died following repeatedly being prescribed an oral contraceptive pill.

A former rest home manager is calling for better care for the elderly after her father was "starved of food and fluid" in a Whakatane centre.

A psychiatrist who had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient and paid her to keep mum has been stripped of his registration and ordered to pay more than $70k.

A doctor who had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient, and paid her tens of thousands of dollars to keep quiet about it, has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

An intellectually impaired man was mistreated by caregivers at a respite facility, highlighting "multiple failings" in his care.