Morning Report

The Health and Disability System review wants to slash the number of district health boards in New Zealand to as few as eight and do-away with DHB elections.

Sarah Dalton, who is executive director… Read more Audio

District Health Boards could be stuffed with political flunkeys if a proposed shake up goes ahead.

That's the call from a former Waikato District Health Board member who admits he landed an earlier… Read more Audio

Officials who allowed two women out of isolation, on compassionate grounds, broke a rule which had been in force for four days.

Both women tested positive for Covid-19 after the pair drove from… Read more Audio

Anyone wishing to sign up for a career in the police will now be turned away, after the police halted its recruitment programme.

It says more than 4000 people are going through the police recruitment… Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

The wasteful duplication of expertise and training has been identified a threat to the medical workforce.

The Simpson review of the health system says if the many groups doing training don't… Read more Audio

Two women who arrived from the UK on 7 June were allowed out of managed isolation in Auckland to travel to Wellington on compassionate grounds whilst infected with the novel coronavirus.

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The Prime Minister says a botch up that allowed a woman with Covid-19 to leave isolation is unacceptable.

Two women in their 30s and 40s who arrived from Britain on June the 7th were allowed to leave… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

A Māori housing trust in Kaitaia says it will be able to house people in need two years sooner with a fast-tracked consenting process. 

The National Papakāinga Network, is one of the eleven projects… Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

The New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says it is "clear as daylight" Auckland light rail won't get Cabinet sign off before the election.

Jacinda Ardern promised light rail would be built from… Read more Audio