Rowan Quinn

An Auckland vaccination clinic its doing about half the numbers it was before the lockdown - but is relieved to be back up and running.

Many clinics resumed again after a one day pause to get alert… Audio

One of the five positive cases is a fully vaccinated nurse at Auckland City Hospital. RNZ's health correspondent Rowan Quinn has been looking into this and speaks to Māni Dunlop. Audio

There's been another case of Covid being transmitted between people with no known connection to each other in MIQ. This time it was at the Jet Park - the country's highest risk MIQ facility… Audio

Nurses and their bosses are heading to the courts over strike action, as both accuse each other of not doing enough to keep patients safe.

About 30,000 district health board nurses have issued a… Audio

Less than a quarter of those sent initial invitations to the country's first mass Covid-19 vaccination event booked a slot.

The three-day event starts Friday at the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau… Audio

Vaccinators will have to inject one person a minute at the country's first mass vaccination event at the end of July.

Just 12 health workers will immunise 15,000 people over three days at the… Audio

Freight logistics company Mainfreight is ready to go with a Covid-19 vaccination plan for more than a thousand workers and their families in Auckland.

They've been working out the details since last… Audio

Pay talks between senior doctors and district health boards have stalled. The doctors say the DHBs are too focused on the bottom-line, instead of those providing clinical care. RNZ's health… Audio

Nurses have more industrial action planned as frustration with shortages and pay boil over - what's behind the anger?  Audio

Fake rubber arms, dozens of needles and syringes and some deep breaths have been part of the training for a brand new batch Covid-19 vaccinators.

They are members of a whole new immunisation… Video, Audio

A consent botch up has delayed work on a desperately needed upgrade to Middlemore Hospital's babies' unit - just as the winter rush hits.

Work was underway for a month with no building consent before… Audio

There are more than 20 babies in Wellington hospital's children's ward, many on oxygen, as the spread of the potentially deadly RSV virus escalates.

There is a warning the flu-like disease has yet to… Audio

Sick babies are being cared for in a playroom at Middlemore Hospital because it has run out of space in the regular wards.

Bed numbers have been slashed for both babies and older children because… Audio

Critical Covid-19 test results are due out today after thousands of Wellingtonians rushed to get swabbed for the virus.

People in bars, restaurants and at Te Papa at the same time as the Sydney man… Audio

Health officials are looking into an indeterminate Covid-19 test result in Stewart Island. Given the relative isolation, they believe it's probably not a case, but as a precaution, a local childcare… Audio

It's been 107 days since there was Covid-19 in the community - four days longer than the country's previous record.

But as the virus takes off in other countries once held up as shining lights of… Audio

Nurses and district health boards say they'll make plans today to resume negotiations after strikes and rallies all over the country.

Nurses walked off the job for eight hours, instead venting their… Audio

Nurses have taken to the streets around the country demanding more pay and a safer place to work.

They say they were gutted by the government's call to freeze the pay of most public service workers… Video, Audio

Nurses have gone on strike, and are protesting against what they say are low pay offers that do not address major issues for the sector. Max Towle speaks to RNZ's reporters in Auckland, Hamilton… Audio