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.

Big Brother is watching the doctors and nurses at the North Shore University Hospital in Long Island and he wants them to wash their hands.

Survival rates for cardiac arrest, strokes and trauma victims are among the medical records that the new St John boss wants hospitals to provide in order to improve patient care.

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.

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.

More than half the number of whooping cough cases in Western Bay of Plenty have involved adults who have unwittingly helped spread the disease to epidemic proportions.

Tauranga's longest serving paramedic has decided to call it a day after a 48-year association with St John.

A new, highly infectious strain of the norovirus stomach bug that has hit New Zealand has been linked to a death in Northland.

A new and deadly strain was behind most of the norovirus illnesses that affected dozens of people throughout New Zealand late last year.

Kiwis are being urged to take health precautions to prevent infection from a deadly strain of norovirus, which has already reached New Zealand.

Medical experts in New Zealand are bracing themselves for the arrival of a deadly flu that is sweeping the US which has already killed 20 children.

Experts are calling for action to ease the burden on New Zealand's overloaded network of premature baby units.

Editorial: Any health service must seek to provide the maximum gain for the community from the resources available to it.

A policy said to have saved hundreds of lives in New Zealand's hospitals was sidelined at Auckland City Hospital to save money, says Dr Tim Parke, the departing chief of the emergency department.