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

Explainer - The government has changed regulations on several medications. Here's what you need to know about melatonin, ADHD ...

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

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

A group in New Zealand has called for action to tackle Campylobacter in fresh chicken meat. The Public Health Communication ...

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

National’s funding cuts have forced the closure of mental health facility Segar House – cutting jobs and leaving those with ...

A group of Iwi Māori Partnerships Boards (IMPBs) are concerned changes to New Zealand's health legislation will weaken the voices of local Māori communities and centralise decision-making in ...

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.

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.

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