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

Waikato District Health Board leaders do not hide from their hospitals' unenviable status as having one of the highest death rates in the country.

The mother of a newborn baby kidnapped from her hospital crib has described her terror at thinking the child was gone forever.

Natalie Rae died from a blood clot the day after being discharged from a Counties Manukau DHB hospital following a series of scans that were negative for clots.

A Herald investigation has found hundreds of lives each year would be saved if some of NZ's highest public hospital death rates were lowered to those of better-performing health boards.

A nurse who was gang raped claims she was bullied and then sacked as she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Middlemore Hospital in Auckland has beefed up security after a woman entered the maternity ward and snatched a two-day-old baby in January.