10:00am Sun 28 Apr, 2024
Hon Paula Bennett has been appointed as a member and the chair of the Pharmac board, in an announcement made by Associate Health Minister David Seymour on Sunday... Read More
08:00am Sun 28 Apr, 2024
Lorrin, a newly trained Critical Care Flight Paramedic for the rescue helicopter, knows firsthand the importance of getting to patients as quickly as possible... Read More
04:00pm Sat 27 Apr, 2024
Hundreds of New Zealand families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder will benefit from a new Government focus on prevention and treatment, says Health... Read More
07:00am Sat 27 Apr, 2024
Batches of a yoghurt product have been recalled following complaints by customers that a nozzle had broken and pieces of plastic had got into the yoghurt. New... Read More
07:00pm Fri 26 Apr, 2024
After-hours medical services in some regions are on the verge of collapse, as overworked GPs signal they can no longer provide cover or the funding falls short. Documents... Read More
11:00am Thu 25 Apr, 2024
A rest home and some of its staff have been asked to provide written apologies to the whānau of a man who died two weeks after being in their care. Aged... Read More
04:00pm Wed 24 Apr, 2024
For people born with physical disabilities and for those who develop one later in life through illness or injury, opportunities for many day-to-day tasks or... Read More
11:45am Wed 24 Apr, 2024
Colin Thorne does not believe in the saying 'the older I get, the better I was”. The 100-year-old is set to bring down the curtain on his Red Stag Rotorua... Read More
10:35am Wed 24 Apr, 2024
New Zealand Food Safety today issued new import rules for frozen berries to help keep New Zealanders safe and improve processes at the border. In 2022-2023... Read More
04:00pm Tue 16 Apr, 2024
Senior doctors at public hospitals have narrowly voted against asking Te Whatu Ora to pay for their private health insurance. The vote to include it in a... Read More
03:00pm Tue 16 Apr, 2024
People suffering from Long Covid are scared they will face penalties under the coalition government's benefit reset. Social Development Minister Louise... Read More
02:00pm Tue 16 Apr, 2024
A Taupō family is coming to terms with losing just about everything they owned in a house fire last week. Zoanna and David Lamond bought their four-bedroom... Read More