Highlighting ways to prevent falls gives family members peace of mind.

Air Wanganui flies celebrities around NZ as well as providing a vital health service.

"This can have serious consequences for their health."

The fall has been put down to new initiatives focusing on the issue.

Report advises DHB apologise to woman's family for failures of care.

Readers letters: Hospital security; rental issues; Knighthoods; National leadership race

Disgraced junior doctor used fake documents to get a job at Whanganui Hospital.

More than 10,000 Kiwis end up in isolation each year with the longest a 115-day spell

UCOL nursing graduates are finding success in the working world.

International research suggests half could have been avoided or minimised.

Dame Tariana Turia questions whether we should pay GPs to gather smoking data.

The rate of smoking in Whanganui has not changed in three years - despite almost $1.7 million being spent to stub out the habit. A

Whanganui GP John Moore is retiring after 38 years on the job Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A Whanganui cancer patient has had to make five return trips to Palmerston North in a month for treatment that he said was previously

DHBs planning for life-preserving services during resident doctor strike

Whanganui GP Alan Mangan has seen almost nobody with a bout of full-on true influenza this season.

Since the birth of her first grandchild six years ago Susan Osborne's decisionmaking has been focused on future generations. "When

Falling off a toilet, accidentally sticking themselves with a used needle, and running into a parked truck are all injuries Whanganui