A four-year-old was hospitalised in Melbourne yesterday after falling onto a knife left in an open dishwasher.

Primary health services are set to undergo a big shake-up with some hospital services shifting into the community to create new super-clinics.

Rest-home nurses who rushed to an 82-year-old patient's scream found her on the floor with another patient's walking frame on top of her.

Ian McPherson writes that NZ needs a better strategy for coping with healthcare needs.

Under seige former All Black Robin Brooke is under further strain with his baby daughter fighting for her life in hospital.

Two DHBs propose to offer public hospital patients the option of paying for treatment that is not funded by the public health system.

A former television stuntwoman, whom rescuers spent 25 minutes reviving after a near-drowning on New Year's Day, has died after she was sent home from hospital.

Building consent stats released this morning show a 3.1 per cent jump in the number of new homes authorised for construction in November - the highest level since May 2008.

Broadcaster Willie Jackson is making a last-ditch attempt to save a Mangere rest home slated for closure by the Counties Manukau DHB.

The husband of a woman who died in childbirth has been bound to silence after accepting a financial settlement from health authorities.