A schizophrenic man who beat a friend to death after being released from psychiatric care - despite telling staff he wanted to kill someone - is allowed back into the community without supervision.

A surgeon who has been the subject of several complaints about failing to properly inform patients has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 in fines and costs after the death of a patient.

A young man committed suicide after his counsellor told him by text message not to take his medication, provided he was undergoing regular counselling.

Geoff Harper asks whether we are warehousing our elderly for profit.

The Health and Disability Commissioner has suggested that access to publicly-funded health services depends on where patients live.

A surgeon has been reprimanded for swearing at a severely obese patient and for punishing her by removing her from a waiting list.

A former television stuntwoman, whom rescuers spent 25 minutes reviving after a near-drowning on New Year's Day, has died after she was sent home from hospital.

A doctor who severed an artery in a boy's penis during circumcision may face disciplinary action.