Stories by Rowan Quinn

Doctors say if new Covid-19 measures fail to work, they could be faced with making drastic decisions about which urgent patients to treat. Audio

A health recruiter's first overseas drive since the borders opened has maxxed out, with hopes it will bring in 100 desperately needed workers.

Operations are being cancelled or delayed in nearly every public hospital in the country because of winter illnesses, with a prediction it is about to get worse. Audio

Flu is dwarfing Covid-19 when it comes to hospitalisations at one of the country's busiest hospitals.

About 14,000 New Zealanders are known to have been infected with Covid-19 twice.

Urgent and after-hours clinics in Auckland are slashing their opening hours - or not opening at all - because they are so short staffed. Audio

That is despite predictions of a massive winter illnesses season, which is already contributing to long wait times in emergency departments in all of the major centres.

Counties Manukau DHB paid local GP practices to see patients over the weekend to help take pressure off Middlemore Hospital's emergency department.

A Covid-19 modeller is warning a second Omicron wave, likely in the next three to four months, could result in higher numbers of hospitalisations and deaths. Audio

A woman who had her bowel removed while she waited for drugs that would probably have prevented it hopes the Pharmac review will mean others don't suffer the same fate.

The Hutt Valley DHB has called the urgent meeting to be held tomorrow to discuss the quake-prone hospital's future.

Auckland Hospital does not have enough nurses to have all of its operating theatres running as it tries to catch up after Covid-19 delays.

A hunt is on for new publishers for the 135-year-old New Zealand Medical Journal, with warnings it would be a big loss if it folded.

The nurse at a rural aged care home arrived for work on a Monday and didn't leave until the Wednesday night because they were so short staffed.

The sum includes about $1.8 billion to wipe out DHB deficits, while Pharmac will receive $191m over two years to fund new drugs - with a particular focus on cancer care.

Hutt Hospital is to clear one of its main buildings containing critical services because it is an earthquake risk.

Striking health workers have begun picketing around the country, saying they're fed up with being under paid and under valued.

The telethon ran on 16 October, alongside a day-long, nationwide push to get people vaccinated against Covid-19.

Senior doctors could be the next health workers to walk off the job, with their union boss writing an angry letter saying pay talks are becoming impossible.

Teens are going to get their own dedicated unit in the massive shake up of the health system so they do not fall between the cracks of adult and child health.

A union says nurses are deeply frustrated as a four-year fight for a gender pay equity agreement stalls again. Audio

Nurses' long fight for gender pay equity has taken a further hit because of a dispute over back pay - they're heading back to the Employment Relations Authority.

A 73-year-old man has been sleeping in a chair and taking constant pain medication for nine months because his hip replacement operation is overdue.

Wearing glasses or getting a runny nose is enough to qualify for a mask exemption under current Ministry of Health criteria - and a doctor says it's time for tougher rules. Audio

More than 1000 New Zealand cancer patients a year are missing out on gold-standard cancer drugs readily available in Australia. Audio