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DHBs intimidating staff, says union
Vulnerable health workers are being suspended without pay to intimidate them into ending their industrial action, the lab workers' union says.
Strikers' helpless victims
The parents of a baby girl are devastated after being told surgery to help her to eat without a tube has been postponed because of hospital strikes.
Rest homes reject DHB demand for birth details
Rest homes are refusing to comply with a demand to find old people's birth certificates to prove they are eligible for care subsidies.
Falls major cause of hospital injuries
Hospital falls caused more than a quarter of the major "adverse events" listed by DHBs in their latest report on potentially preventable healthcare harm.
Health cuts loom as Govt refocuses spending
DHB chiefs are bracing themselves to make deep cuts to their services next year after receiving Government indications their funding will slip.
Labtests' patients at risk, says health watchdog
Auckland's controversial new community laboratory service poses "a real risk" to public safety, NZ's top health watchdog says.
DHBs told of long wait for blood tests
Delays at Labtests' blood collection centres are being attributed in part to the company not knowing which centres patients would go to.
Bombshell plan for reform has Ryall squirming
Health Minister Tony Ryall is distancing himself from a controversial recommendation that would in effect resurrect part of National's '90s health system.