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.

A psychiatrist who treated patients with the drug ketamine for depression was not carrying out research or experimental treatment, it's been found.

A GP who visited a patient at work, pulling his trousers down and asking her to perform a sex act on him, crossed boundaries, the Health and Disability Commissioner says.

A doctor who left a patient with large growths on her face after being injected with an unapproved drug has been fined $8000 and told his work will be scrutinised.

A plastic surgeon failed to tell a patient she had contracted the superbug MRSA following breast reduction surgery, the Health and Disability Commission has found.

A hospital has apologised to a West Coast woman who suffered horrific burns when near-boiling water burst inside her during a procedure.

The parents of Zachary Gravatt, who died of meningococcal disease, have revealed a fresh agony they faced in putting their 22-year-old medical-student son to rest.

Newborns and unborn babies in later pregnancy have been dying in South Auckland at a higher rate than the national average for most of the past decade.

The Bay of Plenty District Health Board has been criticised for serious failings in the care it provided a mental health patient who later committed suicide.

A woman with a history of cancer died, after North Shore Hospital refused to order tests which would have diagnosed bone cancer.

A surgical mesh that is the subject of international lawsuits and health warnings is still being implanted in hundreds of New Zealanders.

Residents of an understaffed rest home near Christchurch suffered from dehydration and weight loss, according to an official audit.

A health authority has taken charge of an Auckland rest home after planning and management failings amounting to "evidence of neglect".