Fiona Ellis

Comment Hours before news broke of a patient death at Waikato Hospital's beleaguered Emergency Department, a nurse was calling for an urgent capacity boost.

Comment Hours before news broke of a patient death at Waikato Hospital's beleaguered Emergency Department, a nurse was calling for an urgent capacity boost.

Plans for a new ward, with much-needed extra beds to support Waikato Hospital's ED, appear to have been resurrected following a patient death.

The location of a much-needed support ward for Waikato Hospital's emergency department has been finalised after doubts and delays to the project.

Waikato Hospital has spent more than $2 million outsourcing cardiac care to the private sector over a span of about five months, as it struggles to keep up with high demand.

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New Zealand should lead an international push to calm troubled waters with an outright ban on all missile testing in the Pacific, a Waikato University professor says.

An ageing population and the need to raise almost a third of funding through community support are among the challenges facing Hospice Waikato as it provides end-of-life care to the region.

The health system must disclose whether the Waikato Emergency Department was short-staffed at the time of a tragic patient death, the nursing union says.

Instead, she got a call from Waikato Hospital saying the organs she had grieved over was a stranger's gallbladder.