The government needs to make sure public funding gets to those in need.

Three new cases of Legionnaire's Disease were notified in Auckland over the weekend, bringing the total over the past nine weeks to 15.

A man who severed part of his thumb in machinery had to wait eight hours for a hand specialist, who then told him it was too late to reattach it.

Suspended midwife was also the subject of a formal complaint in 2004.

A midwife and a doctor have been censured for missing problems which led to the death of a newborn baby girl. Both blamed fatigue and exhaustion for some of their mistakes leading up to her death.