Staff working for companies producing artificial hips, pacemakers and other medical devices are being allowed into surgeries at hospitals without the consent of patients.

An editorial in the Herald states that the value of the screening pilot needs proving and that the pilot "is not going as well as expected".

More than 220 students have come forward this week with fresh claims of abuse and bullying from medical professionals.

Auckland City Hospital has cancelled some elective surgery due today, because of the high number of patients requiring admission from winter-related illnesses.

A lengthy legal battle could take an emotional and financial toll on the family of a brain damaged Wellington boy: Legal expert.

The capital's health board has been blamed for a young boy's brain damage and quadriplegia because of meningitis that was missed by two doctors.

A two-year-old Wellington boy severely brain damaged after a hospital twice failed to diagnose him, remains in hospital suffering from a chest infection.

A cannabis spray used to treat epilepsy, pain and multiple sclerosis will be considered for public funding next month.

An inspection of Waikato District Health Board's mental health service has been announced following the arrest of a man working as a psychiatrist.

The Minister for Health says he has serious concerns after a health board staffer working as a psychiatrist was fired and arrested for possible identity fraud.

Some Kiwis are travelling as far as India for operations, complaining of long waiting lists and high costs at home.

All Priyashna Kumar wants to do is live a normal life and go to school like others her age.

The family of a pensioner who died after being given a drug that her MedicAlert bracelet warned she was allergic to have welcomed a probe into her death.

Queeny Penhall and Damian Young lost one baby, another suffered complications and a third is on the same track, all due to what the parents and some specialists consider to be gaps in New Zealand's maternity care.

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

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

Starship's flight team have welcomed a new air ambulance, decked in a starry blue livery and equipped with a range of life-saving, state-of-the-art equipment.

A bill which would give three free health checks by a GP every year to holders of the Supergold card failed to pass its first reading in Parliament tonight by 60 to 61.

New Zealand's rate of perinatal death has dipped but our rate of maternal suicide is seven times greater than Britain's, new figures reveal.

A health board and one of its emergency doctors breached the code of patients’ rights in their care of a woman with a spinal infection.

A pensioner died an "agonising and needless" death after hospital staff administered a drug that a MedicAlert bracelet she wore warned she was allergic to.

For Auckland amputee Diane Smith, it matters that the technicians who worked on her artificial leg included a former bulldozer driver.

The commercial mindset that measures well-being in terms of GDP can be insidious, writes Tim Hazledine. Even the welcome focus on reducing child poverty gets justified (by some) as an "investment" in more reliable future workers.

Private medical notes about 90 patients - including details of a woman suffering mental illness after childbirth - were stolen from a social worker's car.

The most vulnerable are likely to suffer with the introduction of 'social bonds' for the private sector, writes Dita De Boni.

Women seeking an abortion are being offered easier access to the procedure with a free, national telephone consultation service that started this week.