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Inequities in the healthcare provided to Pacific peoples and the poor outcomes that result are “a national shame”, says a new stocktake of the health of New Zealand’s Pacific community 

The failure to follow up on both conditions identified in a radiology report led to a Taranaki DHB patient later being diagnosed with terminal cancer of the bile duct 

Failure to involve mainstream providers in the targeted Māori COVID-19 vaccination rollout threatens an outbreak as deadly as that in Fiji, National Hauora Coalition’s Rawiri McKree Jansen says

Information collected by the longitudinal Growing Up in New Zealand study highlights the need for increased primary care funding

A GP has told the health and disability commissioner of her guilt at failing to monitor the health of an infant who went on to require several corrective surgeries for developmental dysplasia of the hip 

Illness at an Australian lab has delayed the result of sequencing the COVID-19 virus carried by the Sydneysider who caused Wellington’s lockdown 

Almost 350 applications have been submitted for positions on the interim boards to be created as a result of health reforms

A collective failure by a Waitematā DHB surgical team resulted in an Alexis wound retractor the size of a bread and butter plate being left inside a patient

The trials of rural Kiwi families’ “moving day” are fresh in the mind of Whangārei GP and dairy farmer Tanya Quin

Whānau Ora provider Pasifika Futures has begun a new primary care-based mental health service aimed at the Pacific community