Top towns: Closing in on 100 per cent first dose in some places
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Live: New Kāwhia case, Christchurch races to test, vaccinate as nine isolate
As Christchurch waits on a knife edge, a small Waikato settlement faces new Covid scare.
'Unacceptable': Disparity in DHB staff vaccination levels revealed
Less than half of all staff at one DHB are fully vaccinated.
Ministry of Health keeps quiet on DHB staff vaccination rates
The deadline for DHBs to know this information was August 31.
Vaccination centre needed for students, OUSA says
Southern District Health Board has no plans to open a walk-in centre on campus.
Health Minister Andrew Little on planned nurses' strike
Midwives and nurses gear up to walk off the job on Thursday.
Covid-19: All port workers test negative as Rio de la Plata leaves
The container ship, which left the area overnight, has infected crew on board.
Midwives strike: Eight-hour rolling strikes begin today
Midwives in Auckland and Northland will be the first to walk off the job today.
Five new MIQ Covid cases, WHO staffer's NZ mercy dash from Fiji
The flight with the seriously-ill WHO worker on board will land in Auckland today.
Revealed: 'Deeply concerning' vaccination rates vary across NZ
In one district Māori are being vaccinated at a quarter of the national rate.
Live updates: Three new MIQ Covid cases, three more mariners infected
All of the Mattina crew who have tested positive will remain quarantined on board.
Nine mariners test positive on Covid-struck vessel
The Mattina container ship is the third vessel in New Zealand to be struck by Covid.
Live: 30,000 Nurses strike DHBs reduce services as staff walk out
Non-urgent surgery and outpatient clinics cancelled as nurses walk off the job.
2020 stocktake found health IT systems vulnerable
The DHBs also lacked skilled IT staff to focus on security, a report found.
'Skin was ouch': Two-year-old's painful rash rare form of arthritis
The sassy toddler's joints are so stiff in the morning she can hardly walk.
Cancer treatment 'screwed up... an absolute disaster'
Litany of misdiagnosis, missed opportunities and mishandled appointments.
Vaccine rollout in Otago called 'a shambles'
Some receive multiple appointments while other frontline staff had not been contacted.
Covid-19 vaccination centre opens in Dunedin
Today the team began injecting the first of two doses to frontline health workers.
Blood test results ease fears over high lead levels in water
'It's not over yet but it's a good way down the track' - Southern DHB's MoH.
Our young, drunk emergency room patients
The busiest times for alcohol-related cases were Saturday nights and Sunday mornings.
Dave Cull steps down from Southern DHB amid health concerns
Southern District Health Board chairman says he faces an 'ominous health challenge'.
Covid 19: Aucklanders head to Queenstown conference
Conference appears contrary to advice for Aucklanders to limit travel outside the city.
'Patients will die': Fears over colonoscopy delays
Bowel Cancer NZ says Covid's return will worsen already dangerous backlogs.
Sylvia Park food court gets 'deep clean' after visit from South Korean case
The food court was closed for a "full deep clean".
DHB to discuss Queenstown as isolation town
Queenstown may become the next isolation town for Covid-19 quarantine.
Double up: Hospital logo confused with Sexwise - and same agency designed both
'Reality is compromise will be needed as they are too similar for both to continue.'
'Sleepless nights, nightmares, trauma' as coronial process drags on
A grieving family has waited for a coronal inquest into son's suicide for seven years.
Editorial: A health system we can depend on and be proud of
Editorial: We deserve much better than the public health service we've been lumped with.
Hospitals stocktake paints dire picture
Many areas of NZs hospitals are in "poor or very poor" shape - report.
Grieving family asked for feedback after newborn baby dies
Commission finds multiple errors leading to the death, and continued afterwards.
Crisis in public health doctor numbers and funding, PM told
The College of Public Health is warning the PM there is a shortfall of doctors.
DHB apologises to man who went blind in one eye
Complaint over loss of sight in right eye ends in breach finding against Southern DHB.
Surgery backlog: 'I've given up everything I used to enjoy'
Two weeks after Gareth Milne had major surgery he lost his wife to breast cancer.
Second Southland Covid-19 death after woman dies in hospital
She is the second person to die of Covid-19 in Southland.