Extra beds will be allowed in treatment and family rooms from today at one of our major regional hospitals but it has been revealed some clinical leaders did not initially support the move.

The theft of the donated Playstation 4 left one of its youngest users - a boy with a brain tumour - in tears.

Ministry to "review its position" on financial penalties to DHBs for strike-induced surgery delays.

Northland DHB risks losing $1.5 million in elective surgery funding, chief doctor says

Unionised resident doctors are reported to be working through the strike at some hospitals.

Doctors' strike at 18 DHBs to disrupt care for thousands of patients

District health boards are making their final preparations for the three-day strike by unionised resident doctors that starts tomorrow morning.

Most of those injured in yesterday's Tongariro National Park bus crash have been discharged from hospital, tour boss says.

Pulse-oximetry is a quick, painless and safe test for oxygen levels in the blood

Kiwis' use of antibiotics has soared, indicating widespread inappropriate use for viral coughs and colds, experts say.

Former All Black Keven Mealamu faces off with a pupil from Maungawhau School to help St John get a new ambulance.

Bernadine Oliver-Kerby talks with St John Chief Executive Officer Peter Bradley on the growing concern of assaults on St John ambulance officers.

Emergency department doctors are calling for a ban on National Crate Day after Waikato Hospital was inundated with drunk patients after Saturday's celebrations.

Ena Lai Dung died in a pool of her own urine and faeces, starved, dehydrated, neglected and in extreme pain. Today Cindy Taylor was sentenced for Ena's death.

A sixth person has died almost a week after Melbourne was hit by an unprecedented thunderstorm asthma outbreak.

Hospitals are increasingly at risk of cyber criminal gangs who seek to steal patient data and hold medical instruments ransom, experts warn.

A number of other patients remain in intensive care and one person is critical, the health minister said today.

Some 700 lives a year are being saved in hospital emergency departments by the controversial six-hour target, new research indicates.

Two men have been charged with the murder of South Aucklander Clayton Ratima. The men, aged 31 and 32, will appear in the Manukau

District health boards report bad stuff that happens to patients

A Whanganui cancer patient has had to make five return trips to Palmerston North in a month for treatment that he said was previously

Steven Schroeder is typical of most men - he put off getting a medical issue checked. But he hopes his tale will help others.

Two investigations are under way into the suspected suicide of a mental health patient who had fled a psychiatric hospital and was missing for weeks.

They're exhausted, but striking Whangarei resident doctors found time to do some good in their community during their brief time off

The number of patients being treated at hospitals across the country dropped to about 85 per cent today as the 20 DHBs cope without

The University of Auckland has hit out at plans by Waikato University for a new medical school, calling it "ill conceived" and costly.

Thousands have non-urgent surgery or appointments delayed

Benefits include faster recovery and fewer side effects.

Appointments are being postponed and rescheduled ahead of a nationwide junior doctors strike starting next week.

A doctor used the names of six people to get prescription drugs for herself.