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Inside Money: Dirty linen update and healthy budget choices
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Leaky public hospital could be first of many
Mason Clinic needs extensive remedial work including recladding and reroofing.

Dana Delany takes her new role dead seriously
Dana Delany talks to Jacqueline Smith about playing a doctor who cares more for the dead than the living.

TV Pick of the week: Monroe
James Nesbitt has a distinct advantage when playing brilliant neurosurgeon Gabriel Monroe.

Mental health workers protest against assaults
Health workers have presented management of a mental health facility with a vote of no confidence after hundreds of assaults by patients.

Drinker survives hand sanitiser binge
A man who drank six bottles of hand sanitiser while being treated in hospital for alcoholism has sparked calls for the antibacterial gels to be better secured.

Nurse's affair with patient's husband
The patient, a mum of two, had a severe stroke which left her virtually unable to talk.

NZ deaths lead to new drug - 40 years later
An American doctor has finally produced a drug which offers a solution to the problems which killed patients in several New Zealand hospitals 40 years ago.

Foreign health bills top $19m
Foreign patients treated in New Zealand hospitals owe the system at least $19 million.

ACC admits hardline too tough
The ACC has admitted it has been rejecting too many claimants seeking elective surgery.

Move to fix prescription problems
Patients being given the wrong prescription occurs "a lot", according to the Health Quality and Safety Commission, but a new system should help prevent cases like the tragic death of Shirley Curtis.

TV Picks of the week: Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice
Writer Shonda Rhimes gave her characters an incredible shake-up when she wrote the shooting storyline into the final of Grey's Anatomy's sixth season.

Man charged with toddler's murder
A 28-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Auckland toddler Seini Unaloto Ikamanu. Seini, also known as Jane, was injured at her parents' home in March last year and died in December.