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Send injured skipper your ‘yarns and prayers’

Family are hopeful he will be moved out of critical care within days.

Special investigation: Why getting cataract surgery depends on where you live

Vision-saving surgery depends on your address - check how your region compares.

Pair accused after gas station stabbing death are in hospital

Shayden Perkinson was killed after a "serious assault".

New hospital for Hawke's Bay? MP says it’s ‘time’; officials say it’s ‘some way off’

Hawke’s Bay is on the cusp of a $700m to $1b hospital upgrade, Anna Lorck says.

Wait times increase at Whanganui Hospital's emergency department

'It’s not really a quick, simple answer as to why those waiting times have increased.'

Northland needs at least 300 more nurses

Residential aged care nurses in Northland are being poached by public hospitals.

Revealed: NZ's top 50 builders

One firm has projects worth more than $850m in Auckland.

Opinion: It's time to stop pussyfooting with Covid rules

Other countries have moved on, and so should we, writes Luke Kirkness.

Bypass patient v Southern Cross: Court ruling on $105K claim

He was only in this country for a relatively short time and bought the policy.

Woman who left newborn in hospital waste bin didn't know she was pregnant

The woman pleaded guilty in November to concealing the dead body of a child.

‘No point in giving up’: Top plastic surgeon, now a double amputee, keeps on working

Dr Mellow is now working from a wheelchair.

Woken up at 4am: Rest home complaints reveal staff shortages, residents left soiled

“Staff shortages across the sector have impacted care outcomes."

Hospital staff to receive long-awaited unpaid backpay

Te Whatu Ora said it now expected payments to current staff to begin in July.

Just 3pc of $500m ‘drawn down’ to improve or build mental health facilities

Only $15m has been approved so far.

'He'll never work again': Morphine overdose leads to brain injury

A throat cancer patient was pumped with so much morphine his brain was deprived of oxygen.

Issues post-Posie Parker, cardiac surgery wait list deaths & damning pike river documents | Focus Morning Bulletin: 27 March, 2023

Why Posie Parker’s visits just one piece of a bigger picture, heart surgery patients caught in delays and how National plan to better support the Sallies in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald