$224m funding boost for North Shore/Whangarei hospitals
The funding will go towards improving surgery units and new facilities
The funding will go towards improving surgery units and new facilities
Report shows Christchurch failed to manage city's water issues before chlorination.
In August with 500 out of nearly 5,000 registered nursing positions empty.
Cannabis law may be passed but there will be no regulations for at least another 18 months
COMMENT: There are many good health reasons to include eggs in your meals.
Nationally, 36,000 decayed teeth had to be removed from kids aged 13 and under.
Andrew Parsons just wanted a copy of his medical file. Then he was charged $100.
Advertising Standards Authority received over 140 complaints against the advert.
Hospital deficits across the country blew out to $370m last financial year, data shows.
Deep irony in a health agency disregarding report on staff safety, says quake survivor.
DHB deficits have climbed 100 per cent higher than predicted to $240m in one year.
"The reality is this is going to be an ongoing problem - we haven't solved anything."
COMMENT: Time to establish a Minister for Aged Care, argues Simon Wallace.
"Not getting consent was technically an assault," expert tells
Health Minister David Clark invited NZNO members to send him their CVs.
Police target those alleged to have taken over the drug trade in town after major raids.
Rotorua's Rose Murfitt is thriving after a battle for publicly funded hearing implants.
The elderly resident also had other underlying health conditions.
Ohakea residents have blood tested for toxic substance from firefighting foam.
Nurses strangled, punched in the face: "it's a really serious issue".
Symposium about diet-related disease starts in Wellington tomorrow.
Researchers identify first Kiwi to die of suspected influenza in 1918 pandemic.
The ADHB has acknowledged for the first time the experiment resulted in early death.
'Mostly you want to give up - but you can't because that's not achieving anything.'
Many DHBs are nowhere near the 95% target for getting patients through ED in six hours.
Seven people have contracted swine flu at hospital's acute adult mental health unit.
PM Jacinda Ardern said it was "no secret" that hospitals had been underfunded for years.
Patients with bowel cancer may have been falsely reassured by "All Clear" brochure.
The bowel screening programme is likely to miss about a third of cancers, says an expert