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.

A doctor suffering from bipolar disorder who was suspended from practising in New South Wales after a catalogue of errors has returned to work as a GP in New Zealand.

A Tauranga emergency department doctor convicted for healthcare fraud in the US says he was coerced into pleading guilty.

A Wellington doctor has been suspended after he admitted having 50,000 pornographic pictures of young girls on his computer.

A medical recruitment company claims to have seen a 300 per cent rise in New Zealand doctors leaving to find better pay in Australia in the last year.

A Nigerian drug smuggler who duped authorities to get a job in NZ as a hospital psychiatrist came across as friendly but secretive, acquaintances say.

A Nigerian drug smuggler who fooled immigration officials to get a job as a hospital psychiatrist was yesterday jailed for 16 months.

Health authorities have tightened rules around the monitoring of overseas-trained doctors, following concerns being expressed for several years over supervision.