Emergency care at North Shore Hospital has been rated among the worst in New Zealand. But staff have hit back at the Ministry of Health reports, saying some of the information in them is inaccurate.

Mental health patients are sometimes stranded for days in North Shore Hospital’s emergency department waiting for a bed on a ward, and other patients are not on heart monitors when they should be.

Current and past mayors George Wood and George Gair (who was also among the first raft of surgical patients in the newly opened operating theatres in 1984) will join North Shore Hospital staff in ...

the country’s newest hospital facility on Auckland’s North Shore Hospital campus, Health Minister Simeon Brown says. “This facility has a critical role in reducing waitlists for Auckland’s ...