Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden is keen to simplify New Zealand’s health and safety rules. This ...

Research shows rainbow communities experience violence, family rejection and social exclusion. But a lack of population data ...

Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden is consulting on proposed changes to health and safety regulations to better support ...

Dr Anna Skinner, the Chief Clinical Advisor for Primary Care at Health New Zealand, told Checkpoint that the change would help eliminate barriers for people to get treatment. "People have been ...

RWNZ also supports continued restrictions on higher-risk tasks without supervision and welcomes the shift toward a more ...

Health and Safety experts say the Government need to consider people's lives as they set to change scaffolding regulations.

New Zealand's health system is even worse for Māori, who - at the end of May - had told the Waitangi Tribunal that the health system was failing them.

Traditionally, women needing a hysteroscopy — a procedure used to investigate abnormal uterine bleeding or suspected ...

A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) clinical director is supporting calls for a law change mandating medication be checked ...

Changes to a decades-long needle exchange contract have left a Christchurch drug-user and health expert worried the decision ...

There's calls for law changes among experts after a 2-month-old baby died after she was allegedly given medication at an adult dosage by a pharmacy.