The man was pinned by plasterboard weighing up to half a tonne, police said.

Murderer George Baker was involved in a stand-off with police at Auckland's North Shore Hospital after he was uncuffed by Corrections staff and "smashed up his room".

Changes undermine value of national bowel screening programme, expert says.

The preliminary list of members who will serve on the Auckland region's three DHBs has been released.

Medicine ads pulled off Chinese language sites after inquiries made.

The $37.8 million programme involves listed healthcare system software developer Orion Health, the University of Auckland, and DHBs.

The Waitemata District Health Board has sought extraordinary action to keep a mental health patient accused of murder permanently under its monitoring.

North Shore Hospital relocated 20 patients yesterday following a flood in their emergency department.

Waitakere Hospital has hit back at an urban Maori authority which urged sick people to avoid expensive after-hours clinics by going straight to the free ED.

A man who was going to the toilet up to 40 times a day and was bleeding from his rectum waited more than four months for hospital investigations for cancer.

Sensitive health documents of four dead patients have been spilled on to a busy Auckland motorway.

An 87-year-old Auckland dementia patient's flight from a locked hospital ward has earned a nurse and the Waitemata District Health Board a rebuke from the country's leading health watchdog.

A woman with a history of cancer died, after North Shore Hospital refused to order tests which would have diagnosed bone cancer.

Children as young as nine are among hundreds under 16 being treated by specialist clinics for alcoholics and drug addicts in greater Auckland. One-hundred and ninety were treated last year, and that's the tip of the iceberg.

Nurses have resorted to wearing human flea collars on their ankles to protect against an infestation of the biting insects at Auckland hospitals, brought in by patients who own pets.

Some central Auckland patients could be treated at North Shore and Waitakere Hospitals under a spirit of collaboration, the man now responsible for nearly one million Aucklanders' health has indicated.

North Shore Hospital has apologised for leaving an elderly heart patient in the emergency department for five hours between doctor consultations.