An Australian army field hospital is set to be turned into a community health centre as authorities work to prevent a medical crisis in Christchurch.

Christchurch hospitals are busy but coping as patient numbers swell from the earthquake.

North Island hospitals are receiving Christchurch earthquake victims and plan to send specialists to help in the devastated city.

A medical recruitment company claims to have seen a 300 per cent rise in New Zealand doctors leaving to find better pay in Australia in the last year.

Reforms helped create IT systems that are envied by other countries.

Friends have spoken of their grief after the death of Sarah Carter, the 23-year-old new Zealander who died from food poisoning in Thailand at the weekend, on a Facebook tribute page.

A dream OE has turned to tragedy for three young NZ women after food poisoning killed one and left the other two in hospital.

More than a third of health workers fail to clean their hands every time they should, a snapshot of 10 Middlemore wards indicates.

Oregon's state mental hospital is trying to match surviving relatives with 3,500 people whose cremated remains were once stacked away in a storage area dubbed the "room of forgotten souls."

Fathers hoping to record the birth of their babies will have to rely on photographic memories now video cameras and mobile phones are increasingly being banned from maternity hospitals in the Australian state of Victoria.

Michelle Manu has been on the emergency list for a donated kidney for three years.

A range of causes have been blamed for hospital emergency departments being swamped by a holiday rush.

The Cancer Society is concerned for the safety of patients who are being denied chemotherapy because of a shortage of doctors.

An 8-year-old boy is this morning fighting for his life after falling into a Rotorua geothermal pool as hot as 100C.