A Taranaki health service says vulnerable patients are about to lose dedicated help during complex, often frightening medical ...

The UK's public health service, the NHS, has rapidly expanded outsourcing since 2008 to try to cut public waitlists. It now ...

A new roadside drug-testing regime may see law-abiding citizens with legal prescriptions barred from driving for a period of ...

Problems with the hospital's "too small" emergency department are outlined in information prepared for former Health Minister ...

The person at the centre of a new measles alert in Auckland is a crew member on a Fullers360 ferry, the company has confirmed ...

While the exact causes of OCD are unclear, researchers know that both genetic and environmental factors play a role in its development. OCD can run in families; studies attribute between 40% to 65% of ...

Getting to grips, Auckland ...

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PSA criticisms of changes to our Audit, Assurance and Risk function are wrong. Our proposed new structure would introduce front-end preventive controls to sit alongside existing detection controls, ...

Otolaryngologist, head and neck surgeon Francis T. Hall discusses the evaluation of thyroid nodules, which primarily aims to ...

In a decision released today, health and disability commissioner Morag McDowell has found Auckland DHB breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in ...