New Zealand has lost at least 80 specialists to jobs in Australia in the last eighteen months. What was a trickle is now assuming the proportions of a flood which threatens the viability of New Zealand’s public hospitals...

Senior doctors say the District Health Boards have woefully underestimated the depth of their concerns and their willingness to act in the face of a specialist staffing crisis in New Zealand hospital and the pressure it is placing on services and patients...

For the first time ever, senior doctors around the country will be holding stopwork meetings after a year of unsuccessful negotiations over pay and conditions...