Karen Brown

Pay talks between junior hospital doctors and their employers are to resume today, amid signs of a widening gap between the two groups. Audio

The Director of Public Health at the Health Ministry, Dr Mark Jacobs, has today withdrawn his name as a candidate for election to his local district health board. Audio

In an unusual move, the Director of Public Health is a candidate for his local district health board. Audio

Child cancer patients In Wellington will have to keep travelling to Christchurch for treatment with the capital giving up its struggle to keep a top level cancer service. Audio

Resident doctors say they have a mandate for strike action but want to avoid it. The comment comes as the doctors spend tens of thousands of dollars on an advertising campaign on television designed… Audio

Whether New Zealand's health system is or is not a world leader has been formally debated at the Nurse's annual conference in Wellington. Audio

Talks between junior hospital doctors and their employers have ended in confusion and with little progress in the pay row. Audio

Divisions between junior hospital doctors and their employers deepened today with planned talks scuttled in Auckland. Audio

A major new report has found up to twenty thousand extra New Zealanders will need places in rest homes in 16 years' time. Audio

Despite having called off all strike action for now in Christchurch, radiographers will still go ahead with a nationwide strike at all other public hospitals throughout the country. Audio

Aucklanders are being warned they face very long delays at hospital emergency departments this weekend as striking radiographers once again escalate their action. Audio

The father of a seventeen-month old girl who's had her surgery cancelled at Auckland City Hospital is appealing to striking radiographers to call off their industrial action. Audio

Five hundred patients have had their surgery postponed at Auckland City Hospital and Starship Children's Hospital as the district health board prepares for more industrial action. Audio

Medical experts say New Zealand's doing a poor job of diagnosing and treating a common sleep-related breathing disorder. Audio

Health experts say the Government has failed to target the most important issues in its bid to tackle binge drinking. Audio

Simple changes being rolled out in public hospitals are saving thousands of dollars and valuable nursing time. Audio

An expert panel appointed to help resolve a row over neurosurgery in the South Island has revealed details about how it will do its contentious job. Audio

Surgeons say there is a large, unmet need in parts of New Zealand for healthcare for those who aren't urgent enough to be seen in public hospitals and who can't afford to go privately. Audio

Public hospitals in Auckland have appealed unsuccessfully today to striking lab workers to halt rolling industrial action while they consider a revised pay offer. Audio

Access to heart services has shown no noticeable improvement in the past eight years. Audio