National List MP based in Hutt South says his petition to save the Te Awakairangi Birthing Centre at Melling in Lower Hutt has just clicked over 5,000 signatures
Pharmac has approved funding for a new medicine with substantial health benefits for around 75,000 New Zealanders at high-risk of cardiovascular disease
More than 35,200 Aucklanders have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the last few months since ProCare general practices have been able to administer COVID vaccines according to ProCare, New Zealand’s largest network of primary healthcare professionals
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Kevin Allan has found a dentist in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in their care of a woman who needed root canal treatment
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall has found a midwife in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failing to provide a young pregnant woman with services of an appropriate standard
Four medical colleges have come together to form a Wellbeing Charter for Doctors that defines wellbeing and sets out the shared responsibility for supporting doctors’ wellbeing
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Media release from Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Public Health South, Aukaha and Habitat for Humanity Dunedin have recently launched a new joint initiative to reduce the number of children being admitted to hospital with housing-related respiratory illnesses, by supporting families to make their homes warmer and drier
Wakefield Hospital expands its world-class healthcare services with the most modern and safest private hospital building, celebrated today with the grand opening of the first stage of the entire redevelopment
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management