Guyon Espiner

The Children's Commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft is warning Pharmac not to play one group of children with a life threatening illness off against another.

His comments come after RNZ revealed that… Audio

More than a thousand people are expected to request to end their lives in the first year of the assisted dying regime.

The chief medical officer Andrew Connolly says the Ministry of Health is… Audio

Patients requesting euthanasia will be given unapproved, unregulated and "off label" medicines, sparking warnings of prolonged and distressing deaths.

People who choose to swallow or ingest the fatal… Audio

A woman who lost her job after her epilepsy drugs were changed without her knowledge has forced a top level health review.

Twenty-eight-year-old Laura Hume says it was only after her health began… Audio

What happens if a patient doesn't die during a euthanasia attempt?

That's one of a number of ethical and legal questions being asked by palliative care experts who say we are woefully unprepared to… Audio

Palliative care specialists fear doctors with as little as six hours online training could end up helping to euthanise patients who would have wanted to live if they had proper care and pain relief.

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Auckland Women's Prison faces a major overhaul of the way it handles inmates after revelations by RNZ about the degrading and inhumane treatment of Mihi Bassett and other women at the prison.

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Pharmac's generic drug swap for epilepsy treatment saved $30 million over five years. But for some patients, the consequences were nightmarish.   Audio

The strongest evidence yet that Pharmac's brand switch of epilepsy drugs may have been a factor in fatal seizures was heard at an inquest today.

The inquest is looking into the death of six patients… Audio

Warning: This article discusses suicide and could be distressing for some people.

Prison guards threatened to pepper spray an inmate and then went on to put her in a headlock minutes after she'd… Audio

Pharmac knew there would be clinical reasons why some epilepsy patients would not tolerate a change to their medicines but went ahead with a switch that forced more than 10,000 people to change brands… Video, Audio

The drug at the centre of an inquest into six epilepsy deaths was made at a plant in India which was investigated for significant quality control problems in 2017.

Medsafe knew and did its own… Audio

Auckland Women's Prison treated a pair of inmates in a degrading, cruel and inhumane manner in a "concerted effort to break their spirit," according to a stinging ruling from a district court judge.

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RNZ investigative journalist Guyon Espiner says that while he enjoyed co-hosting Morning Report, he's now loving the chance to dig deeper into the stories that matter. Guyon talks to Jesse Mulligan… Video, Audio

A notorious sex offender in NZ may have caught the attention of the country's Special Intelligence Service because of his links with and time spent in Vanuatu.  Audio

A man who was later found to be one of New Zealand's most notorious sex offenders could have been stopped at least two years earlier but the SIS failed to tell the police they had photographic… Audio

A neurologist's report to the Coroner says changing brands of the anti-seizure drug lamotrigine cannot be ruled out as a factor in the death of 31-year-old Auckland man Andre Maddock in December 2019.

At least four inmates at Auckland Women's Prison were gassed with multiple canisters of pepper spray while inside their cells in an approved tactic their lawyer says is risking lives.

Two of the… Audio