Morning Report Essentials for Tuesday 13 January

An IT expert says even more of the country's patient information portals are at risk - because there's no-one checking private providers; A Southland GP says skin cancer is reaching an almost epidemic level. She's so concerned that she's opening the region's first specialist clinic; An intensive, circuit-breaker type treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder is now being trialled in New Zealand; New data shows New Zealanders are spending far more time under States of Emergency than a decade ago, driven by increasingly frequent storms and fires; Dead hammerhead sharks have been washing up on shore in north Auckland, perplexing some beachgoers.