Wellington, Feb 14 NZPA - The Auckland hospital that sent a woman home with a broken back has defended its action.

Today CMP Canterbury, one of New Zealand's biggest meat exporters, partnered with the New Zealand Customs Service in Customs' Secure Exports Scheme (SES), ensuring CMP experience speedier clearance times and greater trade facilitation.

While many aid agencies have been troubled by the bottleneck of critical aid and supplies, TEAR Fund NZ's partners quickly moved to establish its own supply lines.

Patients of Te Anau's Fiordland Medical Practice will benefit from more timely and convenient x-ray services thanks to a grant from the Meridian Te Anau-Manapouri Community fund late last year.

Wellington, Dec 2 NZPA - Iain O'Brien has even fewer places to hide at the Basin Reserve now that fate has eliminated Shane Bond from the test cricket series against Pakistan.

By Chris Barclay of NZPA

Wellington, Nov 30 NZPA - Grant Elliott has finally spent substantial time batting in a cricket test, and now he anticipates a greater bowling workload as New Zealand look to protect a 1-0 series lead against Pakistan here at the Basin Reserve.

Ten companies with outstanding examples of some of the potentially world-leading health solutions being developed in this country, have been selected as finalists in New Zealand Trade and Enterprise's Focus on Health Challenge business development competition.

A new system that replaces film x-rays with digital images is live at Waikato, Thames, Tokoroa, Taumarunui and Te Kuiti hospitals.

The arrival of two new mobile dental clinics at the West Coast District Health Board will provide improved oral health services to students of rural West Coast schools. A greater emphasis on prevention and education is the core of the new service.

Nine primary health care provider groups have been chosen to move through to the next stage of development in implementing the Government's better, sooner, more convenient primary health care says Health Minister Tony Ryall.