Stories by Ruth Hill

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.

Hato Hone St John has said it will respond to life-threatening emergencies during the 24-hour industrial action, and people should continue to call 111. Audio

This afternoon the Whangārei Hospital's ED was at 156 percent capacity.

A slash in locum rates is to blame and it's not a "sudden crisis", angry doctors have told RNZ. Audio

Lester Levy insists he knew nothing about an internal staff presentation detailing potential widescale cuts to save money.

The Health New Zealand report also shows the bill to fix failing pipes, ancient wiring and other problems at ageing public hospitals is likely to be hundreds of millions of dollars. Audio

One experienced nurse has told RNZ recent demand has "brought staff to their knees".

A specialist locum who has been working in the Far North for nearly a decade had his clinic cancelled by Health New Zealand with no warning - and no plan to support his 100 patients.

A leading surgeon is calling on politicians to stop using the health system for "point-scoring" and work together to treat health inequities in rural regions.

Doctors say their rural patients die from preventable causes more often, just because of where they live. Audio