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Nurses will now be stationed at 111 emergency call centres to answer "non-urgent" calls as part of a wide-ranging shakeup which may also give nurses operating national helplines access to patient records.
Nurses will now be stationed at 111 emergency call centres to answer "non-urgent" calls as part of a wide-ranging shakeup which may also give nurses operating national helplines access to patient records.
A mentally-handicapped man, with the mental age of a 9-year-old, was accidentally strangled to death after becoming entangled in electrical bed wires.
A Greymouth pensioner is stunned after receiving a $1471 bill for an ambulance ride to transfer her partner to Christchurch for surgery which didn’t proceed.
A duck-shooting trip turned to tragedy yesterday after a group of mates were flung from their boat as it capsized on the Waikato River.
Police have confirmed that one person has died and three others have been taken to hospital after a boat overturned on the Waikato River.
A toddler who was badly burned by a pot of hot coffee last year has been reunited with the paramedics who attended to him.
Utah couple Tammy and Richard Barnett were on “the trip of a lifetime to New Zealand” before yesterday’s fatal crash, family say.
An Auckland pedestrian was seriously injured when he was hit by a bus on Queen St yesterday.
A McDonald's restaurant and a chain coffee shop have become temporary ambulance stations in Auckland in a bid to respond quicker to 111 calls.
Minutes after an inferno ripped across a tinder-dry paddock behind her Christchurch home, Julia Walker thought she was going to die.
Former Dunedin mayor Peter Chin is recovering in hospital after being revived by an Air New Zealand crew shortly after take-off, it has been confirmed.
A passenger sitting in front of a man who suffered a suspected heart attack on a flight from Dunedin to Wellington this morning has praised the crew who resuscitated him.
A passenger who got out of a car after it hit a power pole in Canterbury was electrocuted by fallen power lines, and two others who tried to help were shocked.
A judge has told a disgraced former St John officer who sexually assaulted vulnerable patients in the back of an ambulance that he had no previous good character.
Former Waipukurau ambulance officer Christopher Roger King has been found guilty on all charges by a jury at Napier District Court.
A jury is now considering the fate of an former St John officer accused of sexually assaulting four women in the back of his ambulance.
A former ambulance officer accused of sex crimes has told a court there is "definitely not" any truth to the allegations against him.
Stocky 45-year-old man was charged with male assaults female and assaulting with intent to injure.
Three people killed in a horror smash in Central Otago this afternoon were all foreign nationals, police say.
A man police were seeking following a death at a rural West Auckland address last night has been found in Wanganui.