Stories by Ruth Hill

Emergency Department doctors are accusing Health NZ of failing to pay a shift allowance agreed 10 months ago in their previous collective contract.

It is the first of a slew of cancer drugs to now funded by Pharmac following the agency's multi-million dollar budget boost.

The monitors - which Pharmac is now funding for all type 1 diabetics - mean patients are less likely to suffer early deaths, researcher says.

Every classroom in NZ probably has at least one child with FASD - but the vast majority are not getting any support, advocates say. Audio

The number of children and young teens prescribed puberty blockers has fallen, after dramatic increases in the last decade. Audio

A huge lack of understanding of chronic pain means patients are missing out on potentially life-changing treatment. Audio

Some regions - including Gisborne, Whanganui, Palmerston North, Nelson and the West Coast - have no specialist pain medicine physicians.

Many in the profession worry about what it would mean to allow GPs to diagnose patients. Audio

Psychiatrists who heard Matt Doocey's comments shook their heads in apparent disbelief and started murmuring.

Te Whatu Ora insists recruitment has continued, but staff say their colleagues aren't being replaced. Audio

Health Minister Shane Reti says he has been assured by Health NZ commissioner Lester Levy the targets can be met within existing funding.

The code indicates a hospital is critically overcrowded, and doctors say the change by Heath NZ is "applying wallpaper to a great hole". Audio

一线医护人员在事发前两周就已向管理层发出预警；卫生局发言人称将进行内部审查。

Distressed staff say the patient should have been seen within an hour, but instead collapsed while waiting at a critically short-staffed hospital. Audio

"One minute we're operating beautifully. The next minute, we're not financially viable," a Porirua Women and Famly Centre staffer said.

The board of Whare Manaaki Porirua Women's Refuge took legal advice after the request to transfer "a significant sum of money" to the Porirua Women & Family Centre.

But patients will need to pick up more of the cost in the meantime.

Nine out of 10 family doctors plan to increase their fees, if they have not already just done so.

Mental health advocates are slamming the police's high use of tasers, saying "violence is being done to people who are not well".

Junior doctors say losing more admin support will hurt patients as they will have less time to care for them.

Voluntary redundancy is being offered to a limited number of staff working in admin, policy advisory and specialist services.

The man is having to repeat a gruelling and expensive round of chemotherapy so he can undergo the treatment.

About 40 percent of victims' information could not be collected at the time of an offence, mainly due to the complexity of the situation.

Ambulance services across the country will be at reduced capacity on Saturday during the second strike this week.

Kawakawa's ambulance service has already been under extra pressure due to recent staff shortages at the hospital.