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'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.

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.

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.