Rowan Quinn

New Zealand on Air is calling for an industry standard to vet staff who work around children on TV shows - after it was revealed children's show What Now employed a convicted sex offender. It was… Audio

RNZ understands a managed isolation hotel in Rotorua is in lockdown.

It comes a week after Northland and Auckland experienced near-record demand for Covid-19 testing in their regions.

RNZ's health… Audio

The new Health and Disability Review is said to be the biggest shake up of the health system in a generation - so what was wrong with it in the first place?  Audio

Health authorities are scrambling to get in touch with 320 people to prevent Covid-19 spreading further than the two women who brought it back into the country.

The women were found to have the… Audio

District Health Boards will be overhauled and two new government health agencies created in a massive revamp of the health system.

The government has released its final Health and Disability System… Audio

Kathryn talks to Health Correspondent, Rowan Quinn about the wide ranging review of the Health and Disability sector led by Heather Simpson. An interim report, published in September, found the health… Audio

Important health subjects are in line to be dropped from the final year of Otago University's medical degree.

The university has proposed no longer making psychological medicine, obstetrics or… Audio

The government has allocated $200 million to improve health care in South Auckland but health leaders say it is only the beginning of what's needed.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the Health… Video, Audio

There's been a sudden increase the number of Wellington children who've been hospitalised with acute rheumatic fever this year. The region's public health service has issued an alert, telling covid-19… Audio

Nurses who've swabbed tens of thousands of people in the fight against Covid 19 say they're getting the praise - but not the pay - for putting themselves on the line. Primary health care nurses - who… Audio

The government will put an extra $4 billion into the health system over the next four years, including funding to catch up on all the procedures that were cancelled because of the lockdown.

The… Audio

The health system has received a huge cash boost in an early budget announcement, in part to help it catch up because of Covid-19.

The government will give more than $4 billion to District Health… Audio

The government is putting almost $4-billion into the country's health system over the next four years,

RNZ's health correspondent, Rowan Quinn, speaks to Māni Dunlop about the reaction from the… Audio

The government has just announced a big boost for hospital and health service funding. It's to spend an additional $980 million a year over the next four years for District Health Boards. There's also… Audio

The trauma of the Covid-19 lockdown on those who had nothing to do with the disease was laid bare for MPs on Wednesday.

The Epidemic Response Committee has been hearing about experiences of death -… Audio

The Epidemic Response Committee has today focused on the lockdown's impact on those who work with the dying and those left behind.

RNZ's Health Correspondent, Rowan Quinn, speaks to Māni Dunlop. Audio

Zero cases might be a cause for celebration but it'll be the tamest party on the block if health experts have their way.

They say New Zealanders can pat themselves on the back for reaching the first… Audio

Hospitals are being told to consider putting off surgery for older or seriously overweight patients as they start to resume their normal work.

In a memo to DHBs, the Ministry of Health urges them to… Audio

A terminal cancer patient has spent days in a half-full hospital waiting to have a procedure that should have taken an hour.

Some doctors have been urging hospitals to get back to business as usual… Audio