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 chiropractor accused of pinching a woman's nipples while treating her for lower back and leg pain has been told to formally apologise.

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.

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".