A patient went into hospital with an allergy and left with broken neck.

A 37-year-old man had a fatal heart attack after appendix surgery at North Shore Hospital, and his angry family are demanding answers about his treatment and death.

Hospital leaders are braced to hear today if resident medical officers will join the wave of strikes disrupting health services.

Starship patients are being put at risk due to a shortage of staff, the union representing doctors says.

Mother says her daughter went through unnecessary suffering for a common, though potentially lethal, complaint.

Police are investigating whether alcohol played a part in last night's two-vehicle crash on one of NZ's most notorious stretches of highway.

Three people are dead following a collision between a car and a ute in the Waikato tonight.

John Key had told striking Auckland radiographers to be mindful of other successful negotiations in the health sector.

Vulnerable health workers are being suspended without pay to intimidate them into ending their industrial action, the lab workers' union says.

The parents of a baby girl are devastated after being told surgery to help her to eat without a tube has been postponed because of hospital strikes.

An Auckland surgeon says he was astounded when a 15-year-old girl walked into hospital complaining she had swallowed a 19cm toothbrush.

Surgery is being cancelled for hundreds of patients from Tuesday in preparation for four days of strikes by radiographers.