Latest from Capital and Coast DHB

Mental health system 'broken'

Mental health workers plead for public support to fix a 'broken' system they say puts workers and patients at risk.

Raurimu massacre: remembering the fallen

In 1997 Helen and Neville Anderson invited a group of friends to spend weekend with them at a Raurimu lodge. That trip led to one of NZ's worst mass shootings.

Mental health killings spark overhaul

Five homicides within 15 months involving acutely unwell mental health patients have led to an overhaul of health systems following a critical review.

Hospitals full on eve of doctors' strike

Doctors' strike at 18 DHBs to disrupt care for thousands of patients

Five to join bowel screening programme in first year

Some will wait to 2020 to join scheme

Man charged over alleged hit and run

A 24-year-old man remains in intensive care following an alleged hit and run in Whanganui yesterday.

Death rates for surgeons stay secret

District health boards that do heart surgery cannot produce reliable comparisons of individual surgeons' patient complication and death rates.

Police locate escaped mental health patient

DHB slammed for letting mental health patient decline procedure

Dyson: DHB chief's resignation over cuts not the last

The departure of Capital Coast District Health Board chief executive Ken Whelan because of pressure to cut costs will not be the last, Labour MP Ruth Dyson says.

Tetanus boosters stored in faulty fridge

Warning after toddlers overdose on painkillers

Alleged rest home assault on resident probed

Ministry looks into claims health funds missing

Crush goes on care

Family: crisis team 'fails'

Ryall forced me off DHB - ex-union head

Boy, 13, collapses after drinking in class