A petition calling for better pay and funding for community midwives has got more than 11,000 signatures in just five days. College of Midwives chief executive Alison Eddy said midwives were fed up with being overworked and underpaid. She said it......
Bed shortages in Auckland hospitals are causing a mental health crisis, the PSA union says. Would-be patients are being held in police cells for extended periods of time with nowhere to go, and health staff are working as many as 22 hours in a shift......
Surgical mesh patients have described losing their jobs, their love lives and their will to live in a report that paints a bleak picture of the fall out from the toxic implants. More than 600 people told their stories in a restorative justice process......
The repatriation of Australian victims of the Whakaari / White Island eruption has taken the pressure off New Zealand burns units, which are at capacity. At the latest media briefing in Wellington about the eruption, Director-General of Health Ashley......
Clinicians around the country are treating a never before seen level of critical burns patients following the Whakaari / White Island eruption. At a press conference, Counties Manukau DHB chief medical officer Dr Peter Watson outlined the need for......
Nurses and doctors dealing with the measles epidemic in Samoa are overworked - some have been doing 24-hour shifts - and in need of relief, says a Samoan-New Zealand academic. Local health systems have been strained by a disease that's killed 70......
The Ministry of Health (MOH) says of the 31 people who are in hospital following the Whakaari / White Island eruption yesterday, 25 are in burns units in Christchurch, Hutt Valley, Waikato and Middlemore Hospitals. Five people have been confirmed dead......
