Opposition parties reveal what they want to see in the health budget on Thursday.

'It's getting harder to do the work that we trained for,' says open letter from nurses.

Minister Coleman labelled 'cowardly' over refusal to comment on DHB leave blowout.

Frontline workers at Auckland District Health Board are complaining of under-staffing, exhaustion and unpaid overtime.

Three Waikato Hospital nurses have been suspended for defying a controversial new policy forcing non-vaccinated workers to either get flu jabs or wear face masks.

Mental health nurses are speaking out against brutal violence inflicted by their patients, including being punched, kicked, burnt and stabbed and choked.

One of NZ's major employers is looking at refusing to hire smokers, and an Auckland city ban...

Health workers have presented management of a mental health facility with a vote of no confidence after hundreds of assaults by patients.

The patient, a mum of two, had a severe stroke which left her virtually unable to talk.

Patients are being treated in the corridors of North Shore Hospital's A&E because of overcrowding due to winter illnesses.