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 man who severed part of his thumb in machinery had to wait eight hours for a hand specialist, who then told him it was too late to reattach it.

Dunedin Hospital is under investigation over the use of drugs in medical research without proper...

Abuse, neglect, disability care: words no one wants to see together. In 2006 a flurry of stories about appalling care sparked a Government inquiry. Despite steps to fix the problem, it's happening again.