Rowan Quinn

Auckland's Covid contact tracing capacity is about half what it needs to be, with nine days until the deadline to have it up to scratch.

Just eight Covid-19 tests of people in the community were processed on Sunday, prompting the government to look at whether to loosen testing criteria. Audio

Some people are being refused testing at Auckland Covid community testing centres, even if Healthline has told them to get one.

Some doctors are charging for Covid-19 tests despite health officials saying they should be free, and there's also confusion about who should be swabbed.

Covid-19 testing for every person with a cough or cold symptom has been dropped, in a move expected to put an end to the huge demand for tests in some areas. Audio

A Whangārei GP says the city ran out of Covid-19 swabs yesterday as a result of increasing demand. Audio

Plans to close Wellington's Covid-19 community testing centres this week have been ditched amid the rising number of overseas cases.

District health boards will be slashed and new government health agencies created in a massive overhaul of the health system. Video

Mental health and women's health won't be compulsory subjects in the final year of the University of Otago medical degree under proposed changes.

Health unions are furious at WorkSafe's decision not to investigate how seven nurses caught Covid-19 at Waitākere Hospital. Audio

There's been a dramatic rise in the number of Wellington children in hospital with the dangerous disease rheumatic fever.

Auckland's Covid-19 contact tracing has to be five times what it was at the height of the outbreak to meet government requirements.

National screening for one of the country's deadliest cancers will not start again until the end of June, with advocates fearing the delay could cost lives.

GPs say they've been passed over in the Budget and want to be at the table when the extra health support the government has promised is divvied up.

Doctors say it will take a lot more to fill the huge hole the health system has been working in.

Auckland is at greater risk from the coronavirus flare-up than the rest of the country, a leading Covid-19 data modeller says.

Epidemiologist Michael Baker says a zero Covid-19 case day is a great symbolic milestone, but in his job, one day doesn't count for much.

Hospitals are being told to consider putting off surgery for seriously overweight people and those over 70 unless it is urgent.

Intensive care units at Dunedin and Invercargill hospitals would have been overwhelmed before the end of this month if the worst-case scenario for Covid-19 had played out.

A cancer patient spent "precious days" in Palmerston North Hospital waiting for a procedure that should have taken an hour.

Up to 400 people could die from cancer if hospitals don't catch up quickly enough after the lockdown, the Cancer Society says.

An Invercargill nurse describes her team's daily conditions on nine-hour shifts in PPE and how camaraderie is getting them through.

Record numbers of people have been turning up at some Covid-19 testing centres, many with the most minor of symptoms.

An Invercargill woman fighting for her life - and five of her family members - still don't know how they got Covid -19.

Intensive care specialist Andrew Stapleton spent much of last month preparing for the worst case scenario - hospitals overwhelmed by critically ill patients.