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.

Demanding hospital rosters are having an adverse effect on junior doctors around the country.

How many times over the years have we seen the junior doctors' union complain about the unconscionable hours they work in public hospitals?

DHBs planning for life-preserving services during resident doctor strike

Union says resident doctors' working hours are unsafe.

Gabrielle Stuart looked at what five years of belt-tightening for the CDHB could look like for the community.

Hundreds of people in Auckland and Otago are being given preventive antibiotics

A mother who forced her children to undergo unnecessary surgery in order to orchestrate England's biggest ever benefit fraud, has been jailed.

In his new book Things That Matter, Middlemore Hospital intensive care specialist Dr David Galler discusses stories of life and death including his mother.

A 1-year-old baby boy was this morning burned after pouring a cup of hot coffee over himself. The incident happened at Gulf Harbour

A Westport family had to take their elderly relative to Buller Hospital on Tuesday night because a St John ambulance couldn't come for 90 minutes.

Uto Enosi Tuipulotu came to Akaroa to support his family back in Tonga, but now is in Christchurch Hospital battling a rare form of cancer.

More than 180 people have died in flooding along the Yangtze River in China after torrential rain. Eleven million dollars is going being pumped into Dunedin Hospital, for a new critical care unit.

A man in his 60s who was injured in an electrical accident at a Christchurch fertiliser plant remains in intensive care at Middlemore Hospital.

Seven fire crews are battling a fire at a women's clinic in Auckland.

Five-year-old Saoirse Gaffney went to the doctor with a sore tummy last month, only to be told she had an extremely rare cancer.

The number of West Coast orthopaedic patients transferred to Christchurch has skyrocketed despite assurances "less than a dozen" would occur each year.

Waitakere Hospital has hit back at an urban Maori authority which urged sick people to avoid expensive after-hours clinics by going straight to the free ED.

The Government today top-up after subcontractor prices came back higher than expected.

Middlemore Hospital has been designated a National Spinal Cord Impairment Centre, and has bought a new O-Arm and Navigation machine.

"Terrible" alcohol-fuelled violence that requires police dogs and Tasers to deal with is an example of why stricter booze controls are needed.

Under a new measurement system, it is estimated that between 60,000 and 80,000 patients are being sent back to their GP for care each year.