
Forgotten follow-up appointment before terminal cancer diagnosis
Mr A was diagnosed with terminal cancer that may have been avoided with follow-up care.
Mr A was diagnosed with terminal cancer that may have been avoided with follow-up care.
Investigation highlights extreme pressures that hospital ED had been operating under.
Training for staff wanting to work in ICU could sometimes take years.
The situation was described as 'ongoing and difficult to control'.
A Kiwi went to the US for a cousin's wedding but contracted a life-threatening pneumonia.
Fresh concerns over our hospital buildings, how buy now, pay later schemes could be fueling addiction and cold plus fog hits the country in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald
A 28-year-old man was charged with assault following early-morning incident.
Katie Harris examines fentanyl, a synthetic prescription drug 100 times more potent than morphine. Video / NZ Herald / Getty / NZ Drug Foundation
Alison Pascoe sought $4m in compensation.
"Initial indications are that the incident involved people known to each other."
Health NZ says Middlemore's under-pressure emergency department is continuing to adapt.
The man accused of killing Laisa Waka Tunidau in random attack was in mental health care.
MP's promise comes after Herald exposed investigation into claims women harmed by its use.
Merrissa Haa, 47, is disabled after surgical mesh was inserted into her body without her consent. Video / Andrew Warner
Sally Walker's insides were so badly damaged by surgical mesh that she was forced to get her bladder removed and her vagina sewn closed. Video / Dean Purcell
OPINION: Will this turn out to be another of Chris Hipkins' "regrets".
Little says 'staff absenteeism' exacerbating pressures of Covid, flu and winter.
Woman whisked to Waikato Hospital for urgent surgery endured lengthy wait in wrong ward.
The cardiac surgery waiting list is full, nurses are burnt out, some care has been paused.
New documents reveal why district health board bosses are hardly jumping for joy.
An emergency specialist says the situation is psychologically and physically exhausting.
The DHB says patients and services will still have to be moved out of the building.
18 out of 20 DHBs didn't reach the 95 per cent of ED patients seen within six hour target.
As hospitals experience "extreme pressure" with "abnormally high" patient presentations, NZ Nurses Organisation co-president Kerri Nuku calls on the Government to act. Video / NZ Herald
Delays lead to 'healthy' 50-year-old woman dying with brain aneurysm.
The South Auckland ED saw more than 420 patients for the second night in a row this week.
Her catheter broke and she was told no one had the time to change her.
Pioneering heart doctor escaped death aged 28 in Karachi military hospital during WWII.
New case numbers remain steady at the start of the long weekend.
Christchurch Hospital is overrun with surgeries deferred.