Britain will roll out meningitis vaccines to uni students in southeast England after an "unprecedented" outbreak of the disease killed two people while the number of new cases jumped to 20.

When Auckland couple Sue and Tony Kerr first opened their door to a homeless teenager as part of an organised programme to shelter young people in crisis, they were nervous about how it would go.

Just one year after ringing a bell marking the end of his cancer treatment, Noah Dobier, of Dunedin, is facing more aggressive intervention to rid him of the disease.

Rural health professional programmes are successfully getting more doctors into rural medical practices, but research has found the programmes need to be expanded.