New data released by ACC shows the cost of claims for sexual assault and abuse has soared from $58.6 million in 2014 to $299.4 million in 2023 – an increase of 411 per cent
General Practice New Zealand chair Bryan Betty says Te Whatu Ora and the Government need to address ongoing issues in the community laboratory testing sector to provide greater stability for the country’s health system
A new study from the University of Auckland is calling for New Zealand to align its regulations concerning blood donations with those of Canada and the UK to allow more gay and bisexual men to donate
Deputy health and disability commissioner Deborah James says a doctor was ultimately responsible for allowing an unqualified employee to administer Botox injections to a woman who suffered adverse side effects
Aged care commissioner Carolyn Cooper says a medical centre’s failure to monitor a man's prostate cancer adequately breached the code and may have prevented the early detection of a pancreatic tumour