Defibrillators should be as ordinary a fixture in New Zealand buildings as smoke alarms, a senior Hato Hone St John clinician has argued, after national figures showed only a small…
The Health and Disability Commissioner has found Health New Zealand breached patient rights after a 55-year-old man with chest pain waited four and a half hours to see a doctor…
The first students training as registered psychology assistants have started at Canterbury and AUT, backed by $28.45 million from Budget 2026, after a consultation that split the psychology profession.
Wellington has a new weapon in its cancer wards. The first of two new $6 million radiation therapy machines has been installed at Wellington Regional Hospital, part of a national…
Two Northland women who once struggled to find steady work are on track to become New Zealand’s first qualified footcare assistants, a brand new health role built around one stubborn…
New Zealand has its first national picture of how many children live with conditions like ADHD, autism and intellectual disability, and it suggests that many are never picked up by…
People along the top of the South Island have been told to stop gathering shellfish from a stretch of the Marlborough Sounds after routine testing turned up a dangerous natural…
Cancer patients across the lower South Island are now being treated on a new radiation machine at Dunedin Hospital, ending months of work to replace an ageing unit without cutting…
Health New Zealand is opening more than 100 extra hospital beds across the country as the winter illness season builds, and emergency doctors are warning that many wards are already…
A tiny Southland town built on coal is now digging deep for something less tangible. Nightcaps, a settlement of a few hundred people tucked into the foothills north-west of Invercargill,…
Palmerston North Hospital no longer has a single permanent gastroenterology specialist on its books, leaving digestive health care for a large slice of the lower North Island in the hands…
New research from Auckland has found that recalled children’s play sand can release asbestos fibres straight into the air a child would breathe during ordinary play, overturning earlier official advice…
A new round-the-clock birthing unit has opened in Parnell, giving central Auckland its first publicly funded primary maternity centre and a midwifery-led alternative to giving birth in hospital. The unit,…
Palmerston North Hospital has lost the last permanent doctor in its gastroenterology service, leaving the wider Manawatū and Whanganui region without a single full-time specialist to look after thousands of…
New Zealand throws away thousands of bowel screening samples every year once they have been checked for traces of blood. Auckland researchers now think those leftover tubes could hold the…
The biggest building Taranaki Base Hospital has ever had opened to patients this week, the centrepiece of a redevelopment that has rebuilt much of the New Plymouth campus over the…
The University of Canterbury Students’ Association has admitted a food safety charge over a mass poisoning that left more than 100 students vomiting and queuing for toilets after a chicken…
New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has begun a technical review into the health effects of nitrate in drinking water, a step that water campaigners and public health researchers have wanted…
A year after a Palmerston North teenager died taking part in a collision game, a head injury charity says New Zealand is still moving too slowly to bring dangerous combat-style…
Erectile dysfunction explained for New Zealand men, including what causes it and the diet, exercise, supplements and medication that genuinely help.
New research has found that one in five Asian patients at Waikato Hospital who needed an interpreter did not get one before signing a consent form for surgery, raising fresh…
Elderly New Zealanders could be asked to hand over lump sums of more than 650,000 dollars to secure a place in a rest home under an accommodation bond model now…
Rural Northland GP clinics report missed appointments up more than 400 percent on the same period last year, with patients choosing fuel over a doctor visit as petrol prices climb…
An Auckland paediatrician has called for a nationwide ban on padded infant sleeping pods after a coroner ruled that one contributed to the death of a five-month-old boy in Hawke’s…
New Zealand’s 32 hospices are cutting the number of dying patients they can care for, with sector leaders saying funding has fallen so far behind costs that some services are…
Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced $15.5 million over four years to set up New Zealand’s first nationally consistent specialist paediatric palliative care service, ending an era in which a…
Palmerston North Hospital’s gastroenterology department is down to a single permanent specialist, and that doctor is leaving next month, according to RNZ reporting on Saturday. The service is funded for…
A new $1.7 million youth mental health respite service will open in Northland by the end of 2026, in response to a coroner’s findings that fragmented agencies and stretched clinicians…
After 19 months of industrial action, ratification ballots and one of the most public health-sector disputes in years, New Zealand’s senior hospital doctors have finally settled with Health New Zealand.…
The Government has announced a $180 million package to expand publicly funded healthcare across the Otago Central Lakes, in a move local advocates say is long overdue but will need…