A health board says it has introduced an oversight group at a neonatal unit in South Auckland plagued by managers bullying nurses. The oversight group had been in place since investigations began behind closed doors last year at Middlemore Hospital,......
The number of staff bullying complaints at Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) has nearly tripled in the last year. Cases of bullying and harassment at ADHB has risen steadily over the past five years, but this year increased dramatically. In 2017......
Suicide or self harm attempts in police custody have increased to 77 in the year to September, almost quadrupling over four years, police data show. Documents obtained from the police show for the year to September 2016, 20 people attempted suicide......
Lives are being needlessly cut short because there's no universal testing for a type of lung cancer mutation, cancer patient advocates say. About eight percent of advanced lung cancer patients have the ALK+NSCLC mutation, and oncologists say drugs......
A measles case has been identified on a flight from Samoa to Auckland. The person, who did not realise they were infected, departed from Apia on the Air New Zealand flight NZ255 at 3.30pm on Thursday 7 November. It touched down at Auckland Airport......
More than 2000 children and teenagers with severe allergies will be able to get free EpiPen injectors from today. They'll be funded by the FundaPen project, a collaboration between advocacy group Allergy New Zealand and Pub Charity. Allergy New......
