Wanaka mothers say maternity care needs action, not to be used as a political football. Maternity care in Wanaka has come under increased scrutiny since June when a mother gave birth on an office floor. There are only two midwives in Wanaka - women......
The director-general of health says there's mounting concern about vaping products around the world as the government here considers banning flavouring and colouring of certain products. Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the government had been preparing......
Several district health boards have come up with multi-million-dollar estimates of what it will cost to fix years of payroll breaches. But the true picture is only expected to emerge from this point on, as a nationally agreed way of auditing the DHBs......
The Health Ministry has secured an extra 100,000 doses of the measles vaccine. That's on top of 52,000 extra doses which arrived in the country on Sunday. Those supplies are expected to be distributed shortly. The ministry said the extra doses......
Doctors say more needs to be done to improve the treatment provided to often frail older people who fall and break a hip. Nearly 4000 New Zealanders fracture their hip every year, costing health services $171 million annually. Anne Moffat. Photo:......
A plastic surgeon says public hospital payroll systems are full of errors that are costing staff dearly and fostering resentment. And a leading lawyer says the depth of payroll confusion under the Holidays Act shows the government's timetable for......
Pharmac is looking at whether it can order more measles vaccine in case the latest batch runs out before January when the next lot is due to arrive. Auckland's senior medical officer of health William Rainger said the serious outbreak in Auckland......
The Canterbury District Health Board has been told it should apologise to a woman who went to the emergency department four times before it was discovered she'd had two strokes. Health and Disability Commissioner Anthony Hill said the woman went......
A new American study has found users of mint and menthol e-cigarettes are exposed to high levels of the carcinogen pulegone. Pulegone has been banned as a food additive, and the intake of the substance from vaping is higher than from menthol cigarettes. One......
