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Court quashes claims for special patients
The claims brought by the three patients spanned about 13 years.
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Smoking ban: Supreme Court backs DHB
The Supreme Court has backed a health board's decision to ban smoking on its premises.
Nearly a quarter of elderly malnourished
New research reveals malnutrition in elderly New Zealanders.
No taxi, no school for boy with cancer
A boy with cancer can't get to school because of a severe shortage of disability taxis.
Man hurt by falling pallet of plasterboard
The man was pinned by plasterboard weighing up to half a tonne, police said.
Murderer causes hospital chaos with shiv
Murderer George Baker was involved in a stand-off with police at Auckland's North Shore Hospital after he was uncuffed by Corrections staff and "smashed up his room".
Cancers left hidden by test change
Changes undermine value of national bowel screening programme, expert says.
Auckland region's DHB results released
The preliminary list of members who will serve on the Auckland region's three DHBs has been released.
Alleged illegal drug sales probed
Medicine ads pulled off Chinese language sites after inquiries made.
DHBs lined up for largest ICT research project
The $37.8 million programme involves listed healthcare system software developer Orion Health, the University of Auckland, and DHBs.
DHB in bid to retain murder-accused
The Waitemata District Health Board has sought extraordinary action to keep a mental health patient accused of murder permanently under its monitoring.
Emergency department flooded by sprinkler
North Shore Hospital relocated 20 patients yesterday following a flood in their emergency department.
'We're not free for everyone'
Waitakere Hospital has hit back at an urban Maori authority which urged sick people to avoid expensive after-hours clinics by going straight to the free ED.
Health workers walk off the job
Some 500 DHB staff have walked off the job today in protest of what they've described as an "over-stretched workforce" that's putting patients at risk.
Public health workers set to strike
Health professionals are walking off the job in Auckland this week in protest against "an over-stretched workforce unable to meet its patients' needs".
DHB apologises after patient's death
A man who was going to the toilet up to 40 times a day and was bleeding from his rectum waited more than four months for hospital investigations for cancer.
Patient files lost on busy motorway
Sensitive health documents of four dead patients have been spilled on to a busy Auckland motorway.
DHB and nurse fail dementia patient
An 87-year-old Auckland dementia patient's flight from a locked hospital ward has earned a nurse and the Waitemata District Health Board a rebuke from the country's leading health watchdog.
Cancer victim died after tests refused
A woman with a history of cancer died, after North Shore Hospital refused to order tests which would have diagnosed bone cancer.
Child alcohol abuse up nearly 20pc
Children as young as nine are among hundreds under 16 being treated by specialist clinics for alcoholics and drug addicts in greater Auckland. One-hundred and ninety were treated last year, and that's the tip of the iceberg.