A 37-year-old man had a fatal heart attack after appendix surgery at North Shore Hospital, and his angry family are demanding answers about his treatment and death.

E. Coli has been found in water from Kaiapoi, reinforcing the need for residents to boil their water after last week's earthquake.

Hospital leaders are braced to hear today if resident medical officers will join the wave of strikes disrupting health services.

Starship patients are being put at risk due to a shortage of staff, the union representing doctors says.

Mother says her daughter went through unnecessary suffering for a common, though potentially lethal, complaint.

A woman plans to appeal to the High Court after an ACC decision not to pay a $250,000 medical bill she was left with when she fell seriously ill after having a flu jab.

An urgent care plan is needed to meet the needs of NZ's over 65 population which will rise by 84pc in the next 15 years, according to a review.

Thousands of Canterbury residents will probably have to keep boiling water until the end of the week to minimise the risk of disease after Saturday's earthquake.

Vulnerable health workers are being suspended without pay to intimidate them into ending their industrial action, the lab workers' union says.

The parents of a baby girl are devastated after being told surgery to help her to eat without a tube has been postponed because of hospital strikes.