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Health workers get early jabs to ensure no vaccine waste

Hundreds of frontline Auckland medical staff have received Covid jabs today.

90-year-old's 192m birthday plunge for Starship

"If it does some significant good for Starship, I shall be very, very happy."

Parents who decline vaccinations for kids - highest/lowest regions revealed

A Covid-19 vaccine information campaign will start this month.

Hospitals stretched for beds, spike in demand over holiday period

Middlemore is blaming the surge on post-holiday injuries and health checks.

Revealed: Costly car parking - how your hospital compares

How does the cost of car parking at your hospital compare?

Foreigners responsible for $68.5m of hospital debt

Health minister says "it is the cost of being a compassionate country".

Vision loss, harm to newborn, cancer diagnosis delay linked to Covid-19 disruption

DHB reports show some patient harm incidents related to Covid-19 restrictions.

Doctor denied C-section: 'Why is the Ministry of Health controlling how we birth?'

Doctor who was initially denied a caesarean section claims it is every woman's right.

Cataracts so bad driving isn't possible - but public system says 'No'

One in four of those declined surgery had sight so bad they couldn't legally drive.

Auckland marathon runner: 'I always wished I had new legs'

Born with spina bifida and amniotic sac syndrome, Paige Boyed is defying the odds.

'Pathetically low screening rates': Doctor's Covid warning as virus spread undetected

As Auckland moves to level 1, documents raise questions about past safeguards.

'Still traumatised by the surgery': Swab left inside Auckland patient for a month

The mistake cost the woman unnecessary harm and significantly impacted her recovery.

Hospital backlog blowout: Care delayed for 500,000 Kiwis

Growing wait times are sparking fears patients are being put at further risk.

Mt Roskill cluster: Two Waitematā DHB health workers test positive for Covid-19

One staffer was already on leave, while the other doesn't work with patients.

Five months, no answers: Family still waiting for information on mum and baby who died three days after birth

The AHDB is closer to completing its review of care into a mum and baby who died in March.

He's had five negative Covid tests. Why his isolation stay has been extended

The woman he was travelling with who tested positive gets out earlier than him.