More than 200 New Zealanders are hurt in their own gardens every day, and the busiest stretch of the year for those injuries is starting right now. ACC says it…
Cocaine use in New Zealand has roughly tripled since 2017, with cheaper prices, easier access and growing social acceptance driving what one of the country’s leading drug researchers calls a…
Wellington Hospital’s emergency department has run at code red, its highest pressure level, about half the time over the past six months, and nurses say their requests for extra staff…
The Government has bought a 13-hectare block of land in Drury, at the southern edge of Auckland, as the site for a future hospital to serve one of the fastest-growing…
New Zealand’s emergency departments are now handling more than 1.4 million visits a year, a record, and two in every three patients arrive sick enough to be triaged as high…
An urgent audit found Dannevirke Community Hospital lacks enough clinicians for a safe roster. Tararua Health Group has 30 days to recruit staff.
Nurses say Whanganui Hospital’s emergency department averaged 680 percent occupancy over a week in September. Health New Zealand disputes the figure but confirms a 253 percent peak.
New Zealand’s worst flu season in a decade has passed its peak, with hospital admissions for flu-like illness falling sharply in the latest national figures. But doctors are warning the…
All 16 staff at Pahiatua Medical Centre say they will resign on 16 October unless the primary health organisation widens its review of how the clinic is managed.
The Government has launched a $1.6 million anti-methamphetamine campaign called F. Meth, a deliberately blunt second attempt at reaching New Zealanders before they start using the drug, after its first…
A scroll through 110 years of New Zealand death certificates, from a country where one death in five was an infection to one where cancer and dementia lead the register.
A drug company wants small packs of pseudoephedrine, the cold and flu decongestant that was effectively off the New Zealand market for more than a decade because of its use…
About 1300 people gave up part of their Saturday to walk through the new Dunedin Hospital outpatient building at a free community open day on 12 September, the public’s first…
Health New Zealand says patient numbers remain above historic winter levels and elective surgery is being deferred for at least another three to four weeks.
About 30 emergency department nurses at Gisborne Hospital walk off the job on Wednesday over staffing they say is unsafe, in a district the Government ranks third best in the…
Internal Health NZ documents and a nurse describe waits of more than 24 hours at Wellington Hospital’s emergency department, in the district with the worst six hour result in the…
A national survey of 1,635 adults published in the New Zealand Medical Journal found support of 91 to 94 per cent for eight cancer funding proposals, with 62 per cent…
A Whakatāne primary school lost 125 of its 439 pupils to illness on Monday as New Zealand’s late influenza season strains schools, rest homes and hospitals.
The Chief Ombudsman has published the full report behind the closure of a Dunedin hospital ward for adults with intellectual disabilities, setting out how one patient spent at least 18…
More than 500 New Zealanders who posted off a tube of saliva have helped produce the largest genetic study of eating disorders yet attempted, and the result sharpens a long…
New clinical guidelines will let New Zealand GPs diagnose endometriosis from symptoms rather than surgery, but the change does not land until the middle of 2027.
Doctors warn the influenza season could stretch well into spring after a late surge in cases, with schools reporting heavy absences and emergency departments at their busiest of the winter.
An independent group appointed by the Government has recommended that older New Zealanders be asked to spend their savings down to $100,000 before the state picks up the bill for…
Health New Zealand has launched an equipment amnesty in Canterbury, asking people to return hospital walking frames, wheelchairs and crutches that are no longer needed.
Ambulances from the northern part of Rodney are taking patients to Whangārei Hospital because North Shore is too full.
The rescue helicopter that has been flying out of Hastings since late July is the eighth replacement machine to enter service in New Zealand since the start of 2024, the…
Hato Hone St John declared a major incident on Sunday and switched on its Emergency Operations Centre for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, after recording the busiest single…
A study of more than 15,000 trauma patients found e-scooter riders were 3.5 times more likely to suffer a traumatic brain injury than motorcyclists, with helmet use at just 5.9…
A third of New Zealanders surveyed about their endometriosis care were advised by a medical practitioner that becoming pregnant would relieve their symptoms, new research has found. The finding is…
Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder in New Zealand have more than tripled over 15 years, according to a University of Otago study released this week, and the researchers behind it…