Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Kevin Allan today released a report finding an optometrist in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failing to adequately investigate the cause of a "floater" in a woman’s eye.

The Health and Disability Commissioner released a report today finding an ophthalmologist and ophthalmology clinic in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failing to have checking procedures in place during laser eye surgery.

A ceremonial handover of the Te Papaioea Birthing Centre in Palmerston North this week will cement a new partnership heralded as the "gold standard" of maternity and postnatal care for all New Zealand.

There are four new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today.

The South Canterbury DHB will be carrying out community surveillance testing of asymptomatic (healthy) people this week in Waimate.

UCOL staff are putting their sewing, cutting, and threading skills to use, producing face masks for students who bus in to campus.

With face coverings now compulsory on most public transport, staff at UCOL Manawatū have crafted resuable and washable fabric masks for their students.

The Graeme Dingle Foundation was delighted to host the Director General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield in a recent webinar, "The Road to Recovery for our Nation and our young people".

It’s only two months until New Zealand’s first medicinal cannabis summit, MedCan 2020, with organisers saying the economic potential of New Zealand’s most exciting sunrise industry is more important than ever before.

Today there are five new confirmed cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand - one of these is an imported case detected in a managed isolation facility. Four are community cases.

The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP) is today mourning the loss of former Cook Islands prime minister Dr Joe Williams, who College President Dr Samantha Murton says was a pillar of the Pasifika community and a long-serving Auckland GP.