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Child immunisation rates have improved, but failed to reach their national health target in the latest results from the Ministry of Health 

Former health correspondent praised by NZMA for tough but sensitive journalism 

GPs have bombarded the Ministry of Health with their concerns about “mixed messaging” from health authorities at the height of the measles epidemic  

DHB aims to develop new links with primary care, having scrapped its role of chief medical officer-primary 

DHB reveals spending on enhanced after-hours health service on Waiheke Island 

A surgeon and a DHB have been found in breach of the code of patients’ rights over a man who died after a stitch was placed in his anomalous right coronary artery during surgery 

Medical Council investigation of Venod Skantha to resume following guilty verdict in murder trial 

Interns who holidayed instead of serving health services overseas have been granted medical registration and annual practising certificates

The registration of 53 trainee interns went before Medical Council panel today after they failed to attend all of their overseas elective placements 

Sense of entitlement root of the problem of holidaying students on overseas electives, dean says