Pilots who transport sick children to vital medical appointments are proof angels do exist, and the search is on to find some in Tauranga.

Birth that affected baby's development one of 360 serious events in last year.

Auckland Hospital staff have been called to disciplinary hearings in the breach-of-privacy case involving the man who had an eel removed from inside him.

Hospital doctors may stop charging for cremation certificates after a newspaper investigation revealed the money is being spent on social events and Sky TV.

The 2009 swine flu pandemic cost New Zealand hospitals about $31 million, a new university study shows.

Intensive checking for influenza at two hospitals has shown that the number of infected patients is around one-third greater than was previously thought.

Plans by the Northland DHB to privately fund an extension to Whangarei Hospital will only lead to taxpayers footing the bill if the deal sours, says Labour.

The number of patients waiting for skin cancer surgery at Dunedin Hospital increased 64 per cent in the past year, while Southland Hospital halved its waiting list.

A woman who kidnapped a newborn baby from hospital to convince her partner she had given birth has been banned from having unsupervised access to babies.

A man stabbed in the chest during a midnight incident in a central Auckland park has been released from hospital and charged with assault.

One man was stabbed in the chest and another cut on his face during a midnight attack in a central Auckland park.

Arna Hopkins still has a long road ahead to recovery, but her family are celebrating the fact the three-year-old is finally able to breathe on her own.

Hospital bosses have launched an investigation into a breach of patient privacy after details of an eel getting stuck up a man's bottom were made public.

Nine Tauranga hospital staff have caught a highly contagious stomach bug, with an outbreak of norovirus at the hospital.

In NZ, as in many other nations, more than half of adults have difficulty navigating the health system, writes Susan Reid