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Mahitahi Hauora is scrambling to coordinate their practices’ response to the power cut affecting the entire Northland district 

A cognitively impaired elderly man on hypotensive drugs had an unwitnessed fall that led to his death while in the care of Auckland DHB 

Whangaroa Health Services Trust chair Grant Lane hopes the arrival of Whanau Ora Community Clinic in the trust’s area means a positive end to “a very bad year”

More flexible, more relevant, less com­plicated, less onerous and, above all, achievable: the RNZCGP says it has got the Cornerstone programme right this time

Island Bay GP Richard Medlicott will soon be cycling hundreds of kilo­metres through South Island land­scapes to raise doctors’ awareness of chronic fatigue syndrome

Whangaroa Health Services Trust chair Grant Lane hopes the arrival of Whanau Ora Community Clinic in the trust’s area means a positive end to “a very bad year”

The care provided by Waikato DHB to a mother who gave birth to a brain-damaged child is found to have been ‘seriously suboptimal’ 

There are lessons to be learned from the complaints lodged with the health and disability commissioner between January and June this year, says mental health commissioner Kevin Allan.

South Auckland-based Health Connections has been recognised for a vaccination programme that resulted in none of its at-risk patients contracting measles 

New Zealand is sending vaccination fridges to Samoa to assist with its effort to contain a measles outbreak already connected to seven deaths