Waikato DHB cyber attack: IT systems blackout 'likely to run beyond weekend'
Chief executive says cyber experts were working to isolate the problem.
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Health networks face growing cyber threat after a major attack hits Waikato hospitals.
India Covid-19 appeal: Total surges towards $500,000
World Vision has so far raised an astonishing $462,500 to provide relief to India.
The first cut is the deepest: Listening to music helps surgeons relax
Stereotypically, orthopedic surgeons with their chisels and hammers opt for heavy metal.
Specialist White Island response crew discussed before tragedy
In tragic timing, a response simulation had also been planned for 2 months after eruption.
Revealed: Auckland Hospital surgeons' pay tops $1m
The number of employees paid over $500,000 a year has nearly doubled in five years.
Focus: Boy writes letter to PM begging for Starship funding
11 year old boy, Cooper Sinclair wrote a letter to Jacinda Ardern asking for more Starship Hospital funding. Video / Dean Purcell
'Entirely preventable': Kiwis hospitalised because of sunburn
More than 160 Kiwis and Aussies needed specialist care for sunburn.
'I just wanted to be dead': One in two doctors suffering high levels of burn out
Specialist doctor reveals suicidal feelings as a result of work burnout syndrome.
'Staff are burned out': Auckland hospitals overloaded, patients in corridors
Overload means patients in corridors or transferred out of Auckland, ambulances queuing.
India Covid-19 appeal: Doctor's plea for supplies - 'It makes me feel incredibly helpless to watch patients die'
Dr Anjima Das says Covid patients can only get a bed when someone dies or is discharged.
India Covid appeal: '75 patients waiting for every hospital bed'
Most people dying from Covid in India cannot even get into a hospital.
Focus: 'It's not the Covid that's killing people, it's the lack of the most basic essential, oxygen'
World Vision India's Director of Health Dr Carel Joseph, and Surgeon Dr. Anjima Das share feelings of helplessness and fear as Covid ravages India. Video / World Vision / AP / Getty
India Covid-19 appeal: 'It's worse than a horror movie'
A World Vision worker describes how she feared she might lose her husband.
India Covid-19 appeal: 'We are in a race against time to prevent even more people dying'
Franklin Jones, who runs World Vision's response, says the crisis is devastating.
'Obsolete' IT system at Auckland City Hospital to be scrapped
Integrating the dozens of IT systems across the health system will be a huge challenge.
Harrowing photos show White Island survivor's remarkable recovery
Stephanie Browitt has shared the latest photos that show just how far she has come.
Whangārei chef's dad and brother recovering from Covid in Delhi
Student from Mumbai living in Whangārei worried about father back home.
Vitamin D: How important is it for babies?
Low levels of the vitamin can cause respiratory illnesses.
Dunedin Hospital's 'Code Black' could have been avoided if signs acted on
On March 24, the hospital became so overcrowded that 18 patients were left waiting in ER.
Health system overhaul could be 'monumental', GP says
Health system changes would start to come into effect in July next year.
Chris Keall: Death of the DHBs a chance to give health tech a new life
Dysfunctional patchwork of solutions needs to be replaced.
What the Government's health shake-up could mean for Whanganui
Mixed views from MPs to major health overhaul
Health shake-up: Wellington health bosses ready to work with Govt
New Zealand's 20 DHBs will be replaced by one national body from July next year.
Richard Prebble: Andrew Little's health reforms will achieve little
Here's a bold idea for change: Make it legal for Māori to use cannabis.
Report: Māori youth more likely to die than non-Māori following major trauma
DHBs urged to review whether institutional racism and unconscious bias isn't the cause.
Woman dies from sepsis following poor care by rest home
Rest home's incompetence meant the woman suffered in her final days.
Maternity shake-up: Pregnant women may have to pay for urgent doctor visits
GPs say the plan would have "serious unintended consequences" for women and babies.
Hospital overload: Patients forced to wait in the back of ambulance at EDs
The waits are occurring at Auckland, Middlemore and Christchurch hospitals.
Exclusive: Gross understaffing, bullying and dysfunction at major hospital
Waikato DHB tried to keep expert panel's extraordinary findings from the public.
St John failing to meet response time targets: 90yo waits three hours after cat attack
"The whole kitchen floor was awash with blood. I thought, 'am I bleeding to death?'"
'Tsunami of patients': NZ hospitals in crisis after biggest January, February on record
One hospital declared a code black yesterday after reaching capacity.
Middlemore Hospital's emergency department 'cannot cope' with demand, worker says
Serious staffing shortages are now impacting on the treatment of patients, a worker says.
Code black at Dunedin Hospital: 'Avoid ED if possible'
SDHB chief executive said the hospital was doing its best to deal with heavy demand.