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Hato Hone St John was notified at 3.50pm of a chemical incident in Sydenham.

Chloe, 17, was airlifted to hospital after suffering skull fractures and a brain bleed.

Part of Leo's right lung was removed, and biopsy results are still pending.

The Tertiary Education Commission asked providers to keep nurse enrolments at 2025 levels.

Helen Watson paid about $10,000 for surgery, flights and accommodation.

The nodule was found during routine health checks, with no symptoms.

People over 60, smokers and those with health conditions face greater risk.

The National Public Health Service advised the rest homes on management of the cases.

The project will nearly double hospital’s existing footprint and add much-needed capacity.

The Blink-182 drummer said he hopes to be back playing in a few weeks.

OPINION: NZ has always had a mixed health system. Public services have never been enough.

McIndoe houses the emergency department, intensive care and national burns unit.

'In the still of the night when everyone’s sleeping, you’re Googling 'what’s going on?''

The person showed up at Christchurch Hospital just before 2am, police say.

The man assaulted his friend in a closed room in Hutt Hospital's Emergency Department.

Negotiations are ongoing. Terms are due to be agreed in Environment Court by November 30.

Seven senior medical officers complained about the Wimalasena doctors' conduct.

'We want to cut all those weeks down to perhaps less than a day" – Dr Andrew Williams.

Emergency services were called to Anglesea St about 2.45pm yesterday.

Both patients were treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.

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Staffing and resources were recurring factors in delays linked to serious harm.

Briefings rated the risk ‘extreme’ and warned of a possible service collapse.

Tongan patients previously had to travel overseas for surgery at a cost of $35,000.

Coroner Ian Telford found Rotorua Hospital missed vasa praevia on successive occasions.

'Sometimes they need somewhere calm to sit, something to eat, somebody who’ll listen.'

Health NZ will hire 24 nurses for North Shore Hospital's emergency department.

Doctors and nurses should offer emergency help, weighing safety and competence.