Parents of a baby born 10 weeks premature have turned to a fundraising website to say thanks to the hospital staff who kept him alive.

New Zealand ranks well down on the OECD's list of countries with the most hospital beds, but health officials say it's nothing to be concerned about.

A Kiwi man has been awarded more than $6 million in compensation after being left brain damaged due to inadequate hospital care in Britain.

Hospital staff are being punched, kicked, spat on, bitten and verbally abused daily on the job - and the problem is getting worse.

Audiologist Julie Hill said hearing aids are not “valuables”, they are essential tools that people need to hear.

The family of a 101-year-old woman say her $2000 hearing aid was stolen from her ear as she slept in a hospital bed, but the hospital says it was lost.

An estimated 2500 people showed up to protest proposed funding cuts to Oamaru hospital today.

One of the country's largest training centres for intensive care specialists has lost its accreditation amid reports of bullying and harassment.

William Longbottom jokes that his new thumb looks "a bit Frankensteinish" because, after all, it is really a toe.

Twin whose brother's blood circulated in her body in utero was thought to be a boy because her blood cells contained the male sex chromosome.

Our maternity model is unique to New Zealand because of the leading role that midwives play, and for that reason it's highly scrutinised, writes Sharron Cole.

Kiwi inventor Sir Ray Avery is getting help from dozens of artists around the world to raise money for lifesaving baby incubators.

Three eateries with tables on the footpath of Park Rd opposite Auckland City Hospital are going smokefree outdoors from tomorrow, World Smokefree Day.

The death of a woman who was part of a Middlemore Hospital study will be analysed afresh by a coroner, 11 years after her death.

For Maori and other ethnicities, the rates have declined, producing a widening gap in health-care inequalities which is of concern, say researchers.

Tech company Orion Health says its latest $61m loss is in line with its strategy to grow revenue before profits.

More than a quarter of ear, nose and throat patients who need surgery are being turned away from the overloaded Dunedin Hospital department, a letter released under the Official Information Act shows.

Dunedin police are investigating after a Palmerston baby was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

In a new attempt to control New Zealand's obesity epidemic, severely overweight patients will have a stomach drain installed through which they pump out excess food.

Child was being transported for emergency treatment when a lift broke down at Starship.

Fish and chips and ham sandwiches may be off the menu for visitors and staff at Wairarapa Hospital.

A midwife has admitted failings that contributed to the death of a newborn baby during a birth that almost claimed the life of his mother too.

District health boards that do heart surgery cannot produce reliable comparisons of individual surgeons' patient complication and death rates.

The father of a man who was found dead in the Waikato River has lashed out at a mental health facility following the escape of two more men.

Been bitten by a venomous snake, nipped by a deadly spider or are suffering the unpleasant symptoms of cyanide poisoning?

Dr Sue Fleming is director of women’s health at Auckland District Health Board. She has been a trailblazing leader in the traditionally male domain of obstetrics and gynaecology.

The family of a man whose body was found in the Waikato River have made a precedent-setting plea for legal funding to investigate his death.

An ointment used to treat common childhood skin infections is driving the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.