Stories by Rowan Quinn

Specialists have described an appointment with the parents of a baby that was hijacked by one of their support people spouting conspiracy theories.

Daily Covid-19 cases have topped 7000 for the first time since July as the current wave keeps growing.

All sides in a dispute over a four-month-old baby who needs heart surgery have met since their court hearing, but have not been able to resolve the situation.

Health bosses are worried patients will not turn up to emergency departments when they need to, as long waits and overcrowding continues.

New Zealand GPs are the most burnt out in a survey of doctors from 10 similar countries.

Wellington Hospital management have emailed ED nurses alleging the cards breached Andrew Little's privacy, while the Nurses Organisation says it will protect any nurse disciplined.

The woman took her ill teenage daughter to Wellington Hospital's emergency department as an infection spiralled out of control and found herself 53rd in the queue, with tired staff struggling to cope… Audio

Patients sometimes have to go to the toilet behind a portable screen in a room with 10 other people as they wait for care at North Shore Hospital.

There were 4282 daily Covid-19 cases reported today, breaking a plateau that has lasted about three weeks.

The nurses union is investigating after a woman taken to North Shore Hospital by ambulance was punched in the face and knocked to the ground by another patient.

The country's Covid-19 situation is like a big bowl of spaghetti, with a plateau in cases not necessarily telling the whole story, a leading modeller says.

Monkeypox is now being tested for in wastewater, as part of a new trial by ESR.

Mental health patients are sometimes stranded for days in North Shore Hospital's emergency department waiting for a bed on a ward.

Dunedin Hospital has been at 108 percent capacity this week, one of several around the country still slammed by high demand.

Te Whatu Ora has considered moving nurses around the country to help with extreme demand in emergency departments but decided it might increase the risk of harm.

A taskforce has delivered 101 recommendations to cut surgical wait times - but no targets for when they will be achieved.

GP Tony Hanne, accused of incorrectly prescribing ADHD medication, says he worried his patients would be cut adrift if they could not get help from him.

The widespread availability of meth has cut demand for the recreational abuse of ADHD medications like Ritalin, a tribunal has been told.

A leading ADHD general practitioner is accused of wrongly prescribing thousands of doses of medication.

It is unclear what impact a refusal by nurses to work extra shifts is having on an already stressed health system.

Christchurch Hospital's head says high spring demand has taken them by surprise - and school holidays will likely make things worse.

As a winter bonus is about to end, the biggest nurses' union wants to negotiate an ongoing payment system to reflect the pressure on nurses still working extra hours.

Te Whatu Ora/Health NZ says most patients were able to get a new date at the time they were contacted about their surgery being deferred.

New research is calling for mental health screening for all pregnant women early on, to prevent serious problems for mothers and babies later.

Hospitals are having to reorganise theatre schedules and contact patients, many of whom had been waiting a long time.