A severely autistic teen who has been held in prison for the past five days has been offered temporary accommodation.

Doctors are back at work after a 48-hour strike that postponed thousands of surgeries around the country.

Up to 30 West Coast patients won't get scheduled surgery or outpatient consultations next week as a result of the junior doctors' strike.

Changes undermine value of national bowel screening programme, expert says.

The $37.8 million programme involves listed healthcare system software developer Orion Health, the University of Auckland, and DHBs.

More than 3000 resident doctors around the country will walk off the job for 48 hours, starting October 18.

In a New Zealand first, the DHB has set up the Blood Management Service which sees a patient's blood analysed and potentially boosted if needed.

It’s been almost a week since the residents of Havelock North in Hawke’s Bay started to feel unwell. The local council has confirmed the supply of drinking water is contaminated, most likely with campylobacter. With schools closed and hundreds of people sick, the Hastings District Council is being forced into damage control with residents angry they weren’t informed sooner and local businesses reeling for the impact its having on their bottom line.

Alarming new report reveals than half the senior doctors and dentists working in New Zealand public hospitals are tired and exhausted on the job.

Nurse who was sacked from Auckland's North Shore Hospital has been found guilty over missing morphine-like pain pills.

New Zealand's leading cot death expert will urge Health Minister Jonathan Coleman to fund safe sleep bassinets in a private meeting today.

Behaviour by supporters of women in labour have prompted calls at one hospital delivery suite to limit the number of family members attending a birth.

Fast-acting parents are thought to have curbed the spread of whooping cough from a Christchurch primary school.

Applications for a share of a new $7.9 million research fund to improve the treatment of conditions like diabetes and asthma have opened.

Parents of a 9-year-old boy have been threatened with prosecution unless they send him to a special boarding school 300km from their home.

Photos have revealed the squalid conditions in which an autistic man is being kept "like a caged animal" at a disability care unit in the Waikato.

No New Zealander is too disabled to belong in a family, to have a home and to be treated with dignity, yet this is exactly what is happening to Ashley Peacock.

The Human Rights Commission will bring an international expert to New Zealand to investigate the country's use of seclusion after repeatedly raising concerns.

Lizzie Marvelly is right; every woman should be able to make her own choices.

The Government today top-up after subcontractor prices came back higher than expected.

An extra $2.2 billion will be pumped into health over four years to help cope with an ageing population and record immigration.

Hundreds of patients are waiting for elective surgery and at some hospitals higher levels of pain are being demanded just to get on the list.

Families who have struggled through the bureaucratic red tape to gain permission to use medicinal cannabis say the costs remain too high a hurdle for too many.

A nurse who made a false insurance claim and stole drugs has avoided being struck off the profession's register.

Report finds 280,000 New Zealanders are waiting for elective surgery - with more than half of those people not even on official waiting lists.

The health-care industry has turned into a juicy target for cybercriminals.

Medical specialists are warning a change to the way women are tested for cervical cancer is risky and premature.

The three-yearly primary cervical screening test is set to change to screening for human papillomavirus (HPV) every five years.