Disgraced junior doctor used fake documents to get a job at Whanganui Hospital.

Teachers now have to have better English than doctoral students at NZ universities.

Disgraced doctor smoked meth and cannabis before she was sacked.

Sentencing of fake doctor delayed due to late defence submissions.

Human Right Commission complaint laid over foreign doctors' inability to get jobs in NZ

Daughter's ovarian cancer death prompts mum to call for oversight agency for GPs.

The former Whanganui doctor has name suppression until his trial.

Staff travel cost taxpayers in the set-up of a virtual health system at Waikato DHB.

Late plea change sees Mohamed Shakeel Siddiqui convicted on four charges in Hamilton.

A virtual health system set up by Waikato District Health Board will compete with another one designed by GPs and patients.

Doctor's failings included not putting the man in a mental health unit, an investigation found.

A doctor used the names of six people to get prescription drugs for herself.

A doctor who prescribed controlled drugs to her partner while she was working at Whangarei Hospital - including morphine - was justifiably

A doctor wanted on a sex charge in the United States has won a reprieve in his fight to keep his New Zealand citizenship after a bungled attempt to revoke it by the Department of Internal Affairs.

A loophole has left Medical Council powerless to immediately suspend a doctor, even if doctor is under investigation for sexual misconduct or convicted.

A senior doctor who told a medical intern she would get good marks if she slept with him has lost his job.

An inspection of Waikato District Health Board's mental health service has been announced following the arrest of a man working as a psychiatrist.

The Minister for Health says he has serious concerns after a health board staffer working as a psychiatrist was fired and arrested for possible identity fraud.

A doctor who avoided criminal conviction for accessing child pornography on a computer has been stripped of his medical licence.

A psychiatrist who had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient has been stripped of his registration and ordered to pay more than $70,000.

It's not just illness that's spreading - new research has found that thousands of men are going online to share their pain and plead for sympathy.

Feel like taking a mental health day off work? You might need to get in quick as the Medical Council of New Zealand is reviewing its sick note guidelines.

A GP who visited a patient at work, pulling his trousers down and asking her to perform a sex act on him, crossed boundaries, the Health and Disability Commissioner says.

A doctor has been suspended for six months for illegally prescribing abortion medication and ordered to pay nearly $29,000 in legal costs.

A doctor who left a patient with large growths on her face after being injected with an unapproved drug has been fined $8000 and told his work will be scrutinised.

An American doctor continues to work in Tauranga Hospital's emergency department as more revelations of past police and medical investigations surface.

Ailing workers might find it tougher to get a medical certificate from their doctor after a review into how the certificates are issued.