Tiffany Mitchell's paintings about her 4-year-old daughter Eva's fight for life to be auctioned for Cure Kids.

A post-mortem will be carried out today on a baby who died two days after his mother, as the family criticise media for publishing the child's death - while it was still alive.

A man who severed part of his thumb in machinery had to wait eight hours for a hand specialist, who then told him it was too late to reattach it.

Suspended midwife was also the subject of a formal complaint in 2004.

Expanding New Zealand's pay-for-treatment sector may wreck the free one.

Clown doctors are now a staple part of treatment for young patients at Auckland and Christchurch – and soon Wellington – hospitals.