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'Every ED doctor is worried': Clinicians respond to scathing Middlemore Hospital report
South Auckland doctor describes the hospital's current state as a "sh** storm".
Medical student inserted IUD into disabled woman without consent
Health Commissioner: 'It is particularly disappointing that this issue is continuing'.
'He was just a skeleton of a baby': Family moves to Australia to save starving infant
Gideon's body started 'eating itself' to survive - 'He was essentially starving to death.'
'No such thing as too young for breast cancer': Mum fights to live for her kids
When it comes to breast cancer - 'don't wait like I did; your outcome might be better'.
'I don't know if my son will ever walk again': ACC declines support for blind toddler
Lawyer says this case raises an interesting issue about a disabled child who is injured.
'His foot was like a corpse': Toddler nearly dies after IV mishap
'It's terrible because if it had gone on for another hour, he might have been dead.'
Former All Black Dan Carter visits 'world's most at-risk country' for natural disasters
'They don't live with a lot but their gratitude, smiles, their energy was infectious.'
Alana Scott never expected kids after cancer. Groundbreaking surgery gives her hope
'It feels quite strange, I don't think I have fully taken it in that it's happening ...'
'I felt like I was failing as a mother': New mum $10k out of pocket after ACC snub
"Eventually I broke...I didn't want to be here anymore. I felt defeated, and quite alone."
'We love you': Widow's diary of husband's last months with cancer
"We all just kept saying "we love you" until he took his final breath..."
Room service with a side of bassinet, 5-star postnatal stay for $980 a night
Mums can now recuperate from childbirth dipping their toes in 5-star luxury.
Mum ate one meal a day, slept on hospital floors to afford son's cancer treatment
More and more families really hurting, says cancer society boss.
'We lost our dearest daughter': Investigation finds 'missed opportunities' to try save 6yo girl
'It was a disaster...we could not believe this happened in New Zealand,' mum says.
'Priscilla is a miracle': The woman not expected to recover - until she did
'You have to keep fighting the system ... I never gave up on Priscilla.'
'She is too young to die': Family take legal action after hospital advises to let 44yo mum die
Mum, 75, sits at daughter's bedside ready to do CPR - as hospital won't do it.
Mum looking at $12k bill to avoid surgical mesh treatment
If she opts for treatment using mesh it's free because her insurance company covers it.
'Completely unrelated': Mum gets breast cancer twice without warning
'These checks are so, so important. You have to look after yourself.'
Fit and healthy Kiwis dying unexpectedly from mysterious adult condition
So, what is this mysterious genetic condition and can it be prevented?
'Unbelievable': How Govt crackdown failed to protect women from surgical mesh harm
"It is unbelievable ... someone needs to take some accountability for this."
Surgical mesh: 38 more lives harmed after Govt warning to hospitals
Living on morphine, suicidal from "razor blade" pain and one women's vagina sewn closed.
'It needs to stop': Petition demands halt on surgical mesh for birth injuries
'Harm is happening all over the country.'
'Razor blade pain': Surgical mesh harm patient living on morphine, becoming suicidal
"Mesh harm is happening all over the country and it needs to stop."
'It's like a grater on raw wounds': Mum, 35, says mesh implant cripples her
"It makes me incredibly angry. I mentioned my hesitancy to mesh..." 35-year-old mum tells.
Healthcare crisis: Auckland patient 'left in own urine for 14 hours'
Nurses fear patients may die as hospitals battle crisis over workforce shortage.
Student nurse struck by patients and nearly brought to tears apologises for Tik Tok video
She said she had no idea what she was doing while caring for older patients.
'I thought my life was on the line': Young mum undergoes three surgeries after placenta left inside of her
'I was in extreme pain, it felt worse than when I was in labour'.
'Imploding' system: Long delays to urgent surgeries, patients sitting in urine
'Beds go unmade and patients not showered for days on end. Staff cry and work overtime.'
Parents given terminal cancer diagnosis weeks apart tell their love story
'It was her smile and her energy. It was effervescent really, she lit up the room.'
'Human cost of healthcare failure': Sick wait under leaking tent at North Shore ED
Babies as young as seven weeks waiting more than two hours outside in a tent.
Watch: Andrew Little dubs new health system 'beacon towards equity'
Health NZ and the Māori Health Authority will replace the country's 20 DHBs.
'We can be a voice for them': Green MP on 'heartbreaking' surgical mesh claims
MP's promise comes after Herald exposed investigation into claims women harmed by its use.