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DHB reviewing mental health care
The Waikato DHB is reviewing its mental health care processes after Ross Bremner's murderous rampage last week.
The Waikato DHB is reviewing its mental health care processes after Ross Bremner's murderous rampage last week.
Four days, four deaths. Two towns. Keith Bremner lies in a coma in hospital, unaware of his only son's death or the destruction he caused.
The devastated daughter of an elderly couple found dead at their bach on the Kawhia harbour says she bears no animosity towards their suspected killer or his family.
A caregiver charged with assaulting an elderly man in a Hamilton rest home has appeared in court this morning.
A caregiver allegedly caught on covert camera footage hitting and slapping an elderly man in a rest home has been charged with assault.
Nanaia Mahuta's husband is the latest family member to put his hat in the ring for the upcoming elections.
A former Waikato DHB nurse who stole 5000 vials of the Michael Jackson drug propofol has been sentenced to 12 months' supervision and 220 hours' community work.
It beggars belief that any nurses employed in public hospitals would be allowed to decline vaccinations against winter flu.
One worker has now been sacked for defying a new hard-line policy forcing unvaccinated Waikato District Health Board staff to get flu jabs or wear masks.
A US doctor was last night informed his identity may have been stolen in what is being described as a "sophisticated" case of identity fraud.
The father of a Hamilton man who died while under the care of Waikato DHB says it is unclear if a psychiatrist arrested for identity fraud was involved in the treatment of his son.
Waikato Hospital bosses are contacting 25 mental health patients after they were treated by a psychiatrist suspected of identity fraud.
A nurse who stole 5000 vials from a restricted medicine room was able to keep taking the drug because the hospital did not confiscate her ID swipe card.
The Waikato District Health Board has declared flu season officially kicking off after a spike in the number of reported influenza-like-illnesses.
Two Hamilton schoolkids have contracted measles, causing one school to put quarantine measures in place.
District health boards that do heart surgery cannot produce reliable comparisons of individual surgeons' patient complication and death rates.
The Waikato District Health Board has backed its incoming chief executive, despite concerns about his time overseeing a Canadian health authority.
The Waikato District Health Board has lifted its ban on women having their labours and births photographed professionally - provided no intervention is required.
A psychiatric assistant who forced a young autistic patient to the ground and held him in a head lock was justifiably dismissed, the ERA rules.
Hundreds of health workers are being bitten, head-butted and assaulted while they look after sick, injured and distressed patients.
Waikato District Health Board leaders do not hide from their hospitals' unenviable status as having one of the highest death rates in the country.
The Waikato District Health Board is offering free whooping cough vaccinations to women from 20 weeks of pregnancy up until to two weeks after the birth of their babies.