Stories by Karen Brown

Government funding for an eye disease drug has decreased wait times and the cost of treatment, an eye specialist says. Audio

Young patients with bowel cancer are waiting too long to be diagnosed, research says.

The Ministry of Health is being urged to review a bowel cancer screening decision, to reduce health inequity.

Hospitals spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the nationwide nurses' strike in July.

Patients at nearly half the country's district health boards are waiting longer than they should for urgent tests to detect bowel cancer. Audio

Terminally ill patients who suffer a rare reaction to chemotherapy cannot get public funding for alternative drugs because their cases are not considered exceptional. Audio

An extra 300 junior hospital doctors are likely to be needed to staff new hospital rosters, at a cost of more than $35 million. Audio

Recently introduced hospital rosters increase the risk of harm to patients and reduce vital opportunities for training, a rebel group of junior doctors warns.

Hospitals are struggling to meet targets for delivering a key bowel cancer diagnostic test on time, a review of the national bowel screening programme found.

Jacinda Ardern and David Clark today welcomed the settlement between hospital nurses and their district health board employers. Video

District health boards say rest homes struggling to fill nursing vacancies are in a perfect storm.

Older New Zealanders who are still ineligible for a free bowel cancer screening are buying their own tests, but say they shouldn't be forced to pay thousands of dollars for specialist appointments as…

People are being invited to compare, rate and review doctors and other healthcare providers on a new website.

Nurses and their employers today pledged to continue bargaining to find a way through their complex impasse over pay and staffing.

Nurses will vote today on the latest pay offer from their district health board employers. Audio

The high-profile head of the senior doctors' union is to resign at the end of next year.

A woman in her late 60s died following the failure of a radiologist to detect cancer on a CT scan.

A bowel cancer screening error affected 12,500 more people than earlier revealed, with 30 of them developing cancer.

Kobe Brown lost vision in his right eye in September 2015 after waiting a year for a follow-up eye appointment that he should have received within six months.

Margaret Wilson has been named as the chair of the independent panel set up to resolve the impasse over nurses' pay.

Health authorities are urging anyone with measles symptoms to phone but not visit their family doctor.

It's taken more than two years for health authorities to send an apology to the family of a man hit by a resthome worker.

A rest home worker convicted of assaulting an elderly dementia patient may face further legal action.