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Lockdown harmed Kiwi kids – shocking new study finds
Avoiding hospitals and reduced access to healthcare contributed to worse outcomes.
'The kids were terrified': Former nurse aide recounts 'hideous' abuse at Lake Alice
Electric shocks were given as punishment, but masqueraded as treatment.
'Totally unaffordable': Auckland DHB patients pay $31m in car park fees
Hospital parking seen as a problem across the country, with poorer patients hit hardest.
New call to GPs: Cut antibiotic prescriptions by a third
Study finds big drop in antibiotic prescriptions last year didn't lead to hospital cases.
Nurse shortage leaves beds empty, operations cancelled
Medical staff at Christchurch Hospital say the stretched workforce is at breaking point.
Nurses strike: 'I try to cry at home, I go to work afraid'
For eight hours, 1400 Northland nurses stopped work to ask for a better deal.
'Whole thing is just a mess': Waikato ED doctors, nurses at breaking point
Emergency department staff breaking down in tears almost every shift due to pressure.
Live: 30,000 Nurses strike DHBs reduce services as staff walk out
Non-urgent surgery and outpatient clinics cancelled as nurses walk off the job.
Nurses to go on strike: 'Offer from DHBs not addressing issues'
Union organiser: Staff are at breaking point and constantly worried about patient safety.
Nurses 'overwhelmingly' reject DHB offer, confirm hospital strike action
An eight-hour nurses' strike will go ahead on Wednesday, affecting all public hospitals.
India Covid-19 appeal: 'In the past two months, at least 40 people died in our village'
Health workers fear the problem will get worse as many villagers are scared of hospitals.
Person dies in hospital following Opiki crash
Two people were injured and transported to Palmerston North Hospital.
Urgent meeting over DHB cyber attack; Privacy Commissioner's warning
Doctors warn of massive backlog with surgeries deferred, and use of handwritten notes.
DHB hack: 'A national crisis' - cancer patients could be sent to Australia
The Government must intervene to protect sick patients, Waikato cancer doctor warns.
DHB attack: 'Good progress' restoring systems and services
DHB says patient care the priority as they plan for the recovery phase after the attack.
'We don't pay ransom': Waikato DHB boss lashes cyber attackers
Waikato DHB is due to give an update on this week's cyber attack.
'Barbaric': Parents of Kelly Savage still fighting to end restraint practice
Family believe son's death four years ago was caused by the use of mechanical restraints.
'Consumed with grief': Widow says DHB failed her husband
"I am absolutely consumed, consumed with grief," widow of heart surgery patient says.
'Uncharted territory': Waikato DHB cyber attack 'biggest in NZ history'
It is expected to be at least another week before the DHB can rectify all the issues.
Exclusive: Supermarket manager stabbed four times - 'so many people put themselves at risk'
"It was a random attack. The victims did not know the man."
Waikato DHB cyber attack: IT systems blackout 'likely to run beyond weekend'
Chief executive says cyber experts were working to isolate the problem.
New Zealand's hospitals battle daily cyber attacks: Ministry of Health
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.
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 appeal: '75 patients waiting for every hospital bed'
Most people dying from Covid in India cannot even get into a hospital.