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'Upsetting': Christchurch hospital turns away mothers and babies due to staff shortage
St George's Hospital is turning away mothers and babies due to staff shortage.
Southland Hospital on brink of collapse, cancer care advocate claims
Staff are struggling "despite continually giving it their all to keep the patients safe".
Auckland Catholic rest home losing $100,000 a month due to critical staff shortage
A number of other rest homes and charity-based places have shut down lately too.
$100m+ expansion planned for 10 Metlifecare villages
Business has 33 villages accommodating 6500 residents.
'Deeply disappointed': Labour's broken cancer promise costing lives, critics say
National has announced it would extend the screening age if party is in government.
Pregnant woman died at hospital after admission to ICU delayed
Woman arrived at hospital in the early hours of the morning with signs of severe sepsis.
'Equity issue' as some rural patients face six-week wait to see a doctor
"In the next 10 years about 50 per cent of our GPs are set to retire."
'I don't know if my son will ever walk again': ACC declines support for blind toddler
Lawyer says this case raises an interesting issue about a disabled child who is injured.
About 55% of planned surgeries rescheduled due to memorial day
All acute or emergency operations will still go ahead.
Claims of more capacity cuts at new Dunedin hospital
Hospital could have fewer beds and operating theatres because of budget pressures.
Roof going on new $300m+ North Shore Hospital block
New block rising at the near-capacity hospital with big staffing pressures
Fears hospital services will be cut in Dunedin
Entire wards could be dropped from the new Dunedin Hospital's inpatient building.
Forgotten follow-up appointment before terminal cancer diagnosis
Mr A was diagnosed with terminal cancer that may have been avoided with follow-up care.
She arrived at ED with a bad headache but left because of long delays. Hours later she was dead
Investigation highlights extreme pressures that hospital ED had been operating under.
ICU head shuts down Act's criticism over intensive-care bed numbers
Training for staff wanting to work in ICU could sometimes take years.
Waikato Hospital ward in lockdown after Covid spreads
The situation was described as 'ongoing and difficult to control'.
Kiwi stuck with $230k debt after US hospital saga
A Kiwi went to the US for a cousin's wedding but contracted a life-threatening pneumonia.
Focus Morning Bulletin: 8 August, 2022
Fresh concerns over our hospital buildings, how buy now, pay later schemes could be fueling addiction and cold plus fog hits the country in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald
Hospital locked down after attack on ED worker
A 28-year-old man was charged with assault following early-morning incident.
What is Fentanyl?
Katie Harris examines fentanyl, a synthetic prescription drug 100 times more potent than morphine. Video / NZ Herald / Getty / NZ Drug Foundation
'Hell on earth': Woman with no mental illness kept in psychiatric hospitals for 40 years
Alison Pascoe sought $4m in compensation.
'Human cost of healthcare failure': Sick wait under leaking tent at North Shore ED
Babies as young as seven weeks waiting more than two hours outside in a tent.
Healthcare crisis widening equity gap, says Women in Medicine Charitable Trust
There is a risk of a catastrophic collapse of the healthcare workforce, doctors warn.
Man in serious condition after being shot in Rolleston
"Initial indications are that the incident involved people known to each other."
Is Middlemore's ED changing after patient death, or is it business as usual?
Health NZ says Middlemore's under-pressure emergency department is continuing to adapt.
Opinion: Sockburn killing - The buck stops with you, minister
The man accused of killing Laisa Waka Tunidau in random attack was in mental health care.
'We can be a voice for them': Green MP on 'heartbreaking' surgical mesh claims
MP's promise comes after Herald exposed investigation into claims women harmed by its use.
Focus: Merrissa Haa on her struggles with surgical mesh
Merrissa Haa, 47, is disabled after surgical mesh was inserted into her body without her consent. Video / Andrew Warner
Focus: Patient's surgical mesh 'rotting' inside of her
Sally Walker's insides were so badly damaged by surgical mesh that she was forced to get her bladder removed and her vagina sewn closed. Video / Dean Purcell
Mike Hosking: The dire situation in our hospitals is an irony of the Govt's making
OPINION: Will this turn out to be another of Chris Hipkins' "regrets".
'Code red' warning: Little says health system is 'managing'
Little says 'staff absenteeism' exacerbating pressures of Covid, flu and winter.
'Broken soul': Woman with fractures waits 11 days for surgery
Woman whisked to Waikato Hospital for urgent surgery endured lengthy wait in wrong ward.
Six Covid-related deaths and 4429 new cases today
There were 8638 new community cases & 24 deaths reported yesterday for the past two days.