Waikato DHB's interim chief executive Derek Wright talks about his new job. Video/Alan Gibson

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spent a few moments dishing up strawberries and ice cream to support a fundraiser for Mary Potter Hospice - and promising to look into more funding for palliative care. Credit: Mark Mitchell

Medics find 27 contact lenses that had buried themselves behind the eye of a woman .

New Year’s resolutions and a 10% price hike are believed to be behind a massive surge in calls to the national telehealth service Quitline.

Hawke's Bay iwi Ngāti Kahungunu say they warned authorities for decades about the risk of water contamination.

Hospital staff are being punched, kicked, spat on, bitten and verbally abused daily on the job - and the problem is getting worse.

Editorial: Force-feeding has never been a feature of the humble dairy, yet suddenly it finds itself in the business of public health.

Apart from the serious threats they pose to personal and community health, resistant infections also carry a large economic impost, says Kevin McCracken.

The days of Kiwi doctors treating toddlers for free are long-gone, with one big-city clinic charging $44 to see children younger than 5.

'This was my grandmother, a brilliant and much-loved woman. The story of the final 10 years of her life reveals a shocking truth about how Britain treats its old people.'

NZ is one of the best places to shuffle off the mortal coil, according to a new index.