A serious cyber attack on the Waikato District Health Board’s entire IT system, disrupting many of its services including emails and phone lines and forcing surgeries to be postponed, won’t be fixed until the weekend.Waikato DHB’s…
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Covid 19 coronavirus: Kiwi nurse Jenny McGee, aka 'Nurse Jenny', resigns from NHS, cites lack of 'respect'
Kiwi nurse Jenny McGee, who hit the headlines as the “Nurse Jenny” who cared for British PM Boris Johnson, has resigned from the NHS citing a lack of respect.The New Zealander revealed her decision in an upcoming Channel 4 documentary,…
Budget 2021: Māori housing and child poverty initiatives likely to be biggest Budget winners
Māori housing and child poverty initiatives are tipped to be among the big-ticket items in tomorrow’s budget, a Budget Finance Minister Grant Robertson has sold as the “recovery Budget”.Although careful not to give much away,…
Call for Countdown to act on security following Dunedin stabbing
Countdown has been called to act on security, as more than 70 per cent of union members report experiencing aggression from customers.First Union met with Countdown senior managers yesterday to discuss security concerns, including…
Kaitaia's cold school lunches down to teething issues
Kaitaia Primary School principal Brendon Morrissey has put a stone-cold lunch that arrived two hours late down to “teething issues”, after an unimpressed parent approached NZME with her concerns.”Our kids went without lunches today;…
Budget 2021: Last year was Covid-Budget. How will Covid-19 shape Budget 2021?
This year’s Budget won’t set aside any funding for a purpose-built facility for a future pandemic or similar emergency event, the Herald understands.Health experts have long pushed for Such a facility at the Air Force site in Ohakea…
Northland town fears arsonist in the community after spate of suspicious fires
Fears that Ahipara is home to an arsonist were revived last weekend when a fire was deliberately lit in an unoccupied bach on the road to Te Kohanga.The Ahipara and Kaitaia fire brigades responded to the alarm at 2.04am, Kaitaia…
Letters: Water privatisation, school attendance, light rail, and the Middle East
Tapping into water concern It is good to see Auckland Mayor Phil Goff (NZ Herald, May 17) calling out the threat of water privatisation unless the Government gets the planned water reforms right. Water privatisation overseas has…
Daring Mt Ruapehu rescue recognised at Search and Rescue Awards
Faced with freezing temperatures, gale force winds and pelting rain, a group of 22 rescuers worked for almost eight hours to rescue an injured climber on Mt Ruapehu in September last year. The efforts of those rescuers was acknowledged…
Herald morning quiz: May 19
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