Stories by Rowan Quinn

It is now the biggest employer in the country with 220,000 staff, but many of them say it needs to do better.

They fear the public engagement stage could get caught up in electioneering if it was held sooner.

Alarmed public health experts are calling for pregnant women to be tested twice for syphilis as cases in newborns and unborn babies increase.

National is accusing the government of blocking the release of a report into the performance of the Māori Health Authority/Te Aka Whai Ora.

The nurse had accused police of not taking violence against health staff seriously, believing no charges had been laid.

Fifty students who would otherwise have been turned away from med school will now have the chance to become doctors.

The nurse says the assault happened when she asked a patient to hand over her vape and is upset police is not taking her complaint seriously.

Patients will no longer have to top up the cost of their prescription medicines, in one of few new investments for health this Budget.

North Shore Hospital say bollards prevented the car from making contact with the building - which is what they were designed to do.

A senior doctor's union is not optimistic a lot of money will come for the health sector tomorrow, even thought it needs it.

One of the women diagnosed with cancer after breast screening failures in Wellington says they were all harmed, no matter what a review says.

The figure is part of a damning report into breast screening that calls the system racist.

When it comes to planned surgery, the criteria to get an operation are still different all over the country, the Association of General Surgeons president says.

Doctors say they will still be slogging it out this winter, with a new government plan likely to make very little difference to overcrowding and huge waits. Audio

The Ministry of Health is considering whether to suspend the controversial use of surgical mesh to treat urinary incontinence.

Nearly 600,000 people have had a flu shot in the first four weeks of the main rollout, as doctors warn of a significant and severe season ahead.

Nearly 50,000 ADHD patients will have easier access to Ritalin and other restricted medicine in a change just announced by Pharmac.

Middlemore Hospital is promising it is now much harder for anyone to fake their way into a medical job there - after a bogus doctor saw 80 patients.

A "bogus doctor" who faked his way to a job Middlemore Hospital had tried to get other jobs too, Googling how to remove moles and make cuts in skin.

Australian nurses are nowhere near as keen as their Kiwi counterparts to cross the Tasman.

Melissa Vining's husband, Blair, was told he had to wait longer to see a specialist than he had time to live, a highly critical investigation has found. Audio

It was the first big picture look at the injury toll that came alongside the loss of life and the massive damage to property and the environment from the storms earlier thsi year.

Te Whatu Ora has set up an expert taskforce to investigate after three babies died from the disease this year. Audio

Te Whatu Ora has set up an expert taskforce to investigate after three babies died from the disease this year.

A top level taskforce has made 54 recommendations to try to turn around the country's "dire" and unfair childhood immunisation rates.