Baby death: Mum traumatised after newborn boy drops on hospital floor
A mum was told she wasn't giving birth. Then her precious baby fell to the hospital floor.
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Non-urgent surgery and outpatient clinics cancelled as nurses walk off the job.
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North Shore Hospital was without power for four hours overnight.
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Overload means patients in corridors or transferred out of Auckland, ambulances queuing.
'Our family is broken': Community rallies to help whānau of teen battling cancer
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"Imagine if those babies have disabilities or special needs and we don't know about it".
'Obsolete' IT system at Auckland City Hospital to be scrapped
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'It sucks': Dialysis patients devastated after closure of Auckland renal unit
Patients who spend 12 hours a week hooked up to a life-saving machine upset at closure.
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Many Auckland GPs unable to vaccinate because of DHB rule
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Vaccine confusion: Teacher aide mistakenly receives text
"At first I thought it was spam".
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Auckland DHB chairman gets vaccine early, explains why
"There's no way in which we are preventing people ... getting access to the vaccine."
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Radical changes could be on the way for maternity services at Auckland City Hospital.
Exclusive: Auckland DHB set to overhaul maternity services; investigations into deaths of mothers find problems
"Lack of access or co-ordination of care" was a notable finding in three of the deaths.
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