Crackdown for cheating doctors
Doctors and specialists have been scamming health insurer, Southern Cross, which has just announced new measures in an attempt to save millions.
Doctors and specialists have been scamming health insurer, Southern Cross, which has just announced new measures in an attempt to save millions.
Anaesthetists say the levels of stress they face in their job are comparable to the pressures felt by soldiers and Olympic athletes.
New Zealand's biggest medical and health insurer has slipped back into the black, turning last year's $390,000 after-tax deficit into a surplus of $5.7 million.
Pay equity case will leave rest homes struggling if they don't get more funding, writes Terry Bell.
Auckland City Hospital has cancelled some elective surgery due today, because of the high number of patients requiring admission from winter-related illnesses.
Vital Healthcare Property Trust, the listed hospital owner and developer, has increased annual earnings 4.6 per cent, beating estimates, as its rents increased from an expanding Australian business,....
One of the small number of female chief executives in New Zealand, Grainne Moss runs Bupa, the country's largest aged care home provider.
The specialist medical investor Abano Healthcare lifted underlying earnings 46 per cent and paid a fatter dividend, underpinned by its dental and audiology businesses.
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare beat its forecast annual profit and said earnings would rise further in the coming year.
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare could beat its own guidance for a record-breaking annual profit when its full-year result is revealed on Friday, a broker says.
Here are four medical botch-ups that have been reported on so far in 2015.
Healthcare and animal care products company Ebos reported a 12 per cent gain in first-half profit after lifting earnings in both its divisions and refinancing debt on more favourable terms.
Oceania Healthcare is on track for an initial public offering in early 2015, aged-care operator's chief executive, Earl Gasparich, says he's also in talks with private investors and funds.
A group of New Zealand and Australian mothers of children with cancer are using an alternative treatment to stave off the disease.
Acurity Health Group lifted first-half by profit 22 per cent after increasing revenue from district health board work.
New drugs and medical procedures undergo careful scrutiny before being foisted on the public. Nobody wants another Thalidomide disaster.
New Zealand's biggest retirement owner/operator Ryman Healthcare confirmed its acquisition of the former Kingsgate Hotel site on Campbell Rd, Auckland.
Ryman Healthcare, the country's biggest listed retirement village operator and developer, has bought land in Wellington which it plans to turn into a boutique village.
Ryman Healthcare has secured a site for its second retirement village in Melbourne, which it expects to spend more than $100 million to build.
Ryman Healthcare will invest $690 million in Auckland, building five of eight new villages in the city including one $210 million project.
Auckland's public health authority fears a highly infectious measles virus may be starting to spread in the city independently of imported cases of the disease.
The country's major rest home chains are facing a legal battle over pay as the unions representing aged care workers bring proceedings under the Equal Pay Act.
Caregivers do tasks few could stomach, often for minimal wages, report Simon Collins and Martin Johnston.
An outbreak of scabies infestations at a rest home wasn't managed properly for nine months, an official investigation has found.
A caregiver says elderly residents at a rest home in the Wellington area were dressed again in dirty continence pads to save money on new pads.
A two-month Herald investigation of rest homes has found some major failings - including a confused married woman "mauled" by a resident and a 9-month scabies outbreak.