Hospital says stroke victim needs specialist care that his partner will not be able to provide - but she disagrees

Lewis Railton has battled a rare stroke so violent that only half of those who suffer it live past a month.

The days of Kiwi doctors treating toddlers for free are long-gone, with one big-city clinic charging $44 to see children younger than 5.

Labour's Jacinda Ardern and National's Nikki Kaye on what can be done to improve New Zealand's health system.

Community safety promoters put worries about $330,000 reduction to city council.

First it was matchstick-thin models and anorexia. Now the fashion industry is copping flak over big women on the runway.

Health Minister Tony Ryall says everything is being done to prevent fraud in the health sector, despite it being scammed for $35 million in the past two years.