The new $3.4 million ambulance hub in Cromwell received a further funding boost from the latest round of grants from the Otago Community Trust.

A new high-tech CT scanner at North Shore Hospital will help Waitematā DHB meet the increased demands of its rapidly growing population.

A major new study has refocused the global fight against childhood pneumonia - and New Zealand researchers played a key role.

Medical migration risk to poor countries’ health services Wealthy countries have a responsibility to consider the impact of hiring doctors from poorer countries and try to minimise the practice, says Dr Otmar Kloiber, Secretary General of the World Medical Association.

High patient numbers at Whakatāne Hospital’s Emergency Department as people asked to keep ED for emergencies

Whakatāne Hospital Emergency Department has experienced ‘significant spikes’ in patient attendances in recent weeks with multiple 100-plus days.

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has today received the Gold Membership Inclusiveness/Representativeness Award given annually by the International Council of Nurses (ICN).

A clinical trial that’s now recruiting patients in Waikato, Tauranga, Rotorua, Palmerston North and Wellington will test the ability of a cheap, widely available drug to prevent two of chemotherapy’s most unpleasant side-effects.

May contain traces of nuts.

You see these words regularly on food packaging, and something similar could soon be on your medicine.

Private health systems are more expensive and less efficient, and have poorer patient outcomes, says Professor Martin McKee, keynote speaker at the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists 30th anniversary conference.

Waikato DHB’s Sepsis Ready programme has received a Continuous Improvement rating- from independent auditors and Ministry of Health recognising the work done at the DHB’s hospitals to dramatically improve early recognition and response of patients with sepsis.