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Family question absence of health and safety probe over death
A Mid-Canterbury family is demanding to know why there was no health and safety investigation into the truck crash that killed their daughter.
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Scathing report puts Regional Women's Health Service up in air
A scathing review into the deaths of four babies at the Regional Women's Health Service last year could reshape maternity services in the lower North Island. Audio
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Health Ministry says Housing NZ misusing meth guidelines
The Ministry of Health says it has repeatedly told Housing New Zealand its methamphetamine contamination guidelines are only suitable to be applied to former meth labs. The Ministry has just published… Audio
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Impasse over how to cut Canterbury DHB's ballooning deficit
The Canterbury District Health Board and the Ministry of Health are at loggerheads over how to reduce the board's ballooning deficit. Audio
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SPC has new strategy for Pacific public health services
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community to embrace a new public health strategy called 'Healthy Island - Healthy People'. On Wednesday the strategy was endorsed by the SPC's governing body,...
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Wāhine Māori and Pasifika in health sector encourage Covid elimination
Wāhine Māori and Pasifika in New Zealand's health sector are warning against the government's recent move away from Covid elimination.
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'You can't flog a dead horse' - Frontline staff criticise health plan
A doctor from Auckland's Middlemore Hospital said while diverting patients and resources sounded "good in theory", there needed to be staff available to deliver that plan.
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'Hopefully we'll get green lights': Turnaround in Māori health outcomes anticipated
But while there are hopes of equity in the long-term, there are warnings that some changes will take years.
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Fears research into exhausted health staff could be stymied
A world-renowned sleep research centre in Wellington has suffered a funding drop that jeopardises its standing.
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DHBs dispute doctors' gagging claim over strikes
A claim by junior doctors that they're being gagged is misleading, district health boards say.
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Health NZ checking credentials of staff working with children after whistle-blower case
A hospital staff member told the Ombudsman child safety checks for contractors had not been carried out for some years at the hospital where they worked.
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Solomon Islands health minister says country cannot afford even basic medicines
Solomon Islands' health minister says the country is running out of basic medicines. The minister, Augustine Taneko, has described the situation as critical - so much so that people must...
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PNG health sector workforce has been deteriorating for 20 years
The director of a Papua New Guinea research institute says successive governments over the last 20 years haven't given the health sector the priority it deserves. Paul Barker of the...
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Mental Health Foundation says health system failed homeless man
Audio 13 Apr 2012The Mental Health Foundation says social services have failed a homeless man, suffering from a brain tumor, who died in an abandoned building after being evicted from a district health board hostel. Audio
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Cancer diagnosis delayed for several years after false negatives in test results
The patient, who went on to develop more advanced cancer, complained to the Health and Disability Commissioner.
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Oxfam keen to explain basic health issues in PNG
Oxfam New Zealand says if it can help increase the level of understanding about basic health in Papua New Guinea, it may help prevent the deaths and torture of people...
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US sets up agency to assess health care in its territories
A new federal agency has been formed to assess the health care needs of the United States insular areas, including the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Marshall...
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Threats, slaps, kicking: Report highlights extent of violence against health workers
Violence against hospital workers is a widespread problem, but there has been little effort to address it, a nurses' union says.
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'It's all really expensive': Health professionals say residency fee prohibitive
Doctors, nurses and midwives from around the world are jumping at the chance to apply for straight-to-residence work visas.
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50 new senior doctors roles funded as Health NZ
Audio 26 Nov 202450 new senior doctors and extra specialist nurses are to be employed by Health New Zealand at a cost of $30 million. Audio
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Govt's claim of no health hiring freeze 'dishonest' - Labour MP
Labour's mental health spokesperson has hit back at the government, saying morale on the ground is incredibly low.
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Alex Fisher case: Mental health report ordered
A mental health report has been ordered for Alex Fisher's older brother, who was arrested during the search for the Levin schoolboy and has been charged with burglary.
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Health experts push for compulsory mask wearing in alert level 2
Health experts say they are mystified over the government's reluctance to enforce mandatory mask wearing and QR code scanning under alert level 2.
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Indigenous health
Audio 30 Jul 2009Matthew Town, indigenous health expert of American Indian descent runs a programme in the US working with tribal communities. He is coming to New Zealand next month to speak at a conference on Maori… Audio
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'Everyone needs to do their bit': Health provider ramps up testing
An iwi-led health provider is stepping up its Covid-19 test abilities in Rotorua as case numbers grow.
