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A small marae-based GP clinic is going to the High Court to try to get its data back from a medical IT company.

"No expert I know says we're going to get through the next outbreak without seeing some tragic deaths of babies," says Otago University epidemiology professor Michael Baker.

An outbreak could be similar to the one in 2019 where there were more than 2000 cases and hundreds of people hospitalised.

A Māori health leader says a new international misinformation study confirms the alarm many were desperately trying to raise last year about the impact on Māori during the initial vaccine rollout.

A Māori health leader says a new international misinformation study confirms the alarm many were desperately trying to raise last year about the impact on

The Waitangi Tribunal has heard that authorities were told early on that the vaccine rollout would need a whānau focus but Māori providers were rebuffed.

Mongrel Mob, Black Power and Tribal Huk members converged in Huntly, where a doctor warned them that Covid was going to be a "s...storm".

Poverty, deprivation and poor access to healthcare are driving premature deaths in South Auckland, experts say. Recently released figures show Counties Manukau has the worst rates of amenable mortality in the Auckland region. Photo: 123RF And recently released figures show it has the worst rates in the Auckland region. "Amenable mortality" is defined as the premature death of a person under 75 that could have potentially been avoided, if they had received effective and timely healthcare. The m...

This equates to 111.8 deaths per 100,000 people in the Counties Manukau health board area, compared to 84.7 in Auckland and 82.6 in Waitematā. The 2018 populations served by each health board were Counties Manukau 567,000, Auckland 493,300 and Waitematā DHB 615,100. The most common causes of such deaths in south Auckland are coronary heart disease, diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, suicide, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and breast cancer. RNZ The healthcare system has been labeled...

Counties Manukau Health and the National Hauora Coalition (NHC) are warning the public about false information being spread about fictional Covid-19 tests in South Auckland schools. A student receiving a rheumatic fever test like those conducted by the Mana Kidz programme. Photo: CHRIS SKELTON/STUFF Social media posts appear to be targeting Mana Kidz, which provides a rheumatic fever prevention programme across 88 primary and intermediate schools in the South Auckland area. The scheme has been...