Checkpoint for Wednesday 2 April 2025

5:46 PM.United Kingdom correspondent Alice Wilkins spoke to Lisa Owen about 'Awful April' dominating headlines in the UK, the cast of four new Beatles movies being revealed and an eight-year-old girl managing… Read more Audio

5:37 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:29 PM.With six months until the next Australian NBL season tips off the owners are introducing some major changes behind the scenes. Sports reporter Felicity Reid spoke to Lisa Owen. Audio

5:24 PM.One in three people are waiting over two weeks for a GP appointment, while more than one in six wait three or four weeks - or even longer, according to RNZ's Reid Research poll. The Health Minister… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.An eleven year girl who was mistaken for an older mental health patient was forcibly injected with anti-psychotic medication that's not normally used for children and wasn't even the first choice of… Read more Audio

4:49 PM.A woman who was referred to Nelson Hospital's gynaecology department waited more than a year to get a first appointment and by then she was so desperate she'd already gone private. Health New Zealand… Read more Audio

4:45 PM.The Waikato 11-year-old mistakenly treated as an adult mental health patient was restrained and twice injected with a drug rarely given to children.

More details have emerged as Health NZ releases… Read more Audio

4:37 PM.Doctors here say New Zealand's high use of antibiotic medication, among the top five in the world per capita, has put us at risk. The World Health Organisation considers antimicrobial resistance as… Read more Audio

4:26 PM.US-based sprinter Eddie Nketia got his season under way with a stunning performance in Louisiana. The 23 year-old came tantalisingly close to breaking the magic 10 second barrier in the 100m sprint at… Read more Audio

4:14 PM.More than 2700 people are now know to have died after a massive earthquake rocked war-torn Myanmar and caused huge damage in neighbouring Thailand on Friday. The toll is expected to rise as people are… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.According to a new Seek survey, more than half of workers regret their job choice. 50 percent wish they'd picked a better paid job. But only six percent of the thousand people who responded are… Read more Audio