Immigration officials will consider removing GPs from a skills shortage list as newly qualified immigrant doctors struggle to find jobs in hospitals.

Two mothers of sick babies in hospital have spoken out about being refused meals because they weren't breastfeeding.

Mothers of sick children are offered more meals per day at public hospitals in Auckland than in Hamilton, and whether a mother is breastfeeding plays a lesser role or none at all.

The Auckland District Health Board is in the firing line again after yesterday admitting it accidentally kept 14 tissue samples from 10 dead patients, despite the coroner ordering a return to families.

Debi Piper knew her little boy was slowly dying. But the words written on his hospital care plan still hurt.

The family of an elderly South Auckland woman are "furious" she was sent home from hospital by taxi in the early hours of the morning.

An American doctor continues to work in Tauranga Hospital's emergency department as more revelations of past police and medical investigations surface.

In an unprecedented peek behind the closed doors of NZ's hospital wards, a junior doctor reveals the delays, duplication and waste that she says are compromising the provision of good health care.

It is just after 8 o'clock on Friday night and Lee Mohr is doubled up in pain, alone at a bus stop outside Middlemore Hospital in South Auckland.

Legal highs must be banned sooner rather than later, says a Coroner who ruled on the deaths of two young men who both died shortly after taking K2 and party pills.

An increase in the number of patients showing up at emergency departments paranoid and agitated on synthetic cannabis is delaying the treatment of more worthy cases, says an emergency doctor.

The senior doctors' union has objected to what it calls an "over-the-top" privacy agreement sent to Auckland District Health Board staff after files of a patient admitted to hospital with an eel inside him were improperly accessed.

It’s probably no surprise that the most popular dishes served from Waikato Hospital’s enormous kitchen are its roasts.

New leaked papers reveal officials fear that a new bulk catering contract for NZ’s district health boards could cost more, with the risk food quality might decline. We ask what's on everyone’s mind: Could hospital food get any worse?

Auckland nutritionist Olivia Green dishes out a review.

Hospital laundry services will be overhauled along with production of patient meals in a bid to save millions of dollars, and job losses are not being ruled out.

The Government is refusing to say how many jobs could be lost in a proposed overhaul of the provision of hospital meals that would save up to $175 million over 15 years.

Health Minister Tony Ryall has rejected Labour Party claims that the Government is planning to close 50 hospital kitchens.

New Zealand's largest hospitals are asking job applicants to disclose whether they smoke.

There have been times, and I know it's a little weird, when I have been so overwhelmed with work, travel and obligations that I yearn for a nice, quiet hospital bed.

The results of the Government's target for 95 per cent of patients to be admitted to a ward, discharged or transferred within six hours have been largely rewarding.

A mother has told of the moment she saw her 8-year-old son lying under his motorbike with a large branch sticking out of his thigh.