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New emergency department aims to end wait in corridors

Woman cries loss of mana after finger thrown into rubbish

Christchurch earthquake: Midwives sought as quake brings births on

Midwives are being sought in Christchurch as the number of premature births rises in the wake of Tuesday's earthquake.

Christchurch earthquake: 'Warzone' hospital aims to prevent health crisis

An Australian army field hospital is set to be turned into a community health centre as authorities work to prevent a medical crisis in Christchurch.

Christchurch earthquake: Army field hospital coming from Aust

Christchurch earthquake: Hospitals cope with waves of injured

Christchurch hospitals are busy but coping as patient numbers swell from the earthquake.

Christchurch quake: Hospitals in north take in casualties

North Island hospitals are receiving Christchurch earthquake victims and plan to send specialists to help in the devastated city.

Three fold increase in doctors heading to Oz - recruiters

A medical recruitment company claims to have seen a 300 per cent rise in New Zealand doctors leaving to find better pay in Australia in the last year.

Success: Health guinea pigs now lead world

Reforms helped create IT systems that are envied by other countries.

Middlemore staff caught dirty handed by survey

More than a third of health workers fail to clean their hands every time they should, a snapshot of 10 Middlemore wards indicates.

Tauranga police launch inquiry after mystery attack

Only small savings in private building of schools - Govt

Search for families of 'forgotten souls'

Oregon's state mental hospital is trying to match surviving relatives with 3,500 people whose cremated remains were once stacked away in a storage area dubbed the "room of forgotten souls."

<i>Kerre Woodham</i>: Baby film ban for the best

Life support shut down, then crash victim gets better

TV Eye: Brains of the operation

Yes, it's interesting in there, inside your skull. It is also a place that is still being explored, and the more the map of the brain is explored, the greater the leaps in medical science.

Gore Hospital review advised

NZ hospitals reject Aussie filming ban