A review of New Zealand’s primary care sector warns the system stands at a “critical juncture”. The New Zealand Initiative ...

A new report examining the state of New Zealand's GP workforce has unveiled the strain many healthcare workers are currently ...

NZ’s right-wing government is exploiting the crisis of unmet need, caused by decades of underfunding of public healthcare, to ...

Health New Zealand, the national health agency, has embarked on a major initiative to expand elective surgical capacity by ...

An 11-year-old girl was restrained, injected with anti-psychotic drugs, and placed on a mental health ward after New Zealand ...

The agency said it was advertising for a specialist doctor for dying children, but there were no ads online until after the shortage was revealed publicly.

Clinicians have instead been directed to follow the hospital’s palliative care guidelines for prescribing medication, with ...

Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced a major overhaul of the public health system, including reinstating a board and ...

Our son died with the people who loved him best, comfortable and with the care he needed. Yet this happened in spite of, not ...

The Children’s Commissioner describes the current situation as “untenable, inequitable and inadequate”, writes Anna ...

Announced today at UC by Hon Matt Doocey, Minister for Mental Health, the new Postgraduate Diploma in Associate Psychology will provide a new career pathway for psychology graduates, strengthening New ...