Health

Eight years after nurse practitioners began registration in New Zealand, the movement for them is gathering real momentum, Otago and Southland district health boards' regional chief nursing and mid

While the Otago District Health Board is carrying out more complicated surgery and treating more patients, it cannot meet demand for non-urgent operations.

Caregivers working in rest homes are often performing tasks outside of their skill areas and more suited to registered nurses, a survey by the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has found.

Bulls general practitioner Dr Dave Baldwin, known for his down-to-earth health promotion, has been in the news again, this time by arriving by helicopter for a pre-Christmas talk to inmates at Man