UCOL Wairarapa is seeing high interest in first-year nursing courses for next year.

Wairarapa has one of the worst patient-to-doctor ratios in New Zealand.

Wairarapa’s covid spread has been the deadliest, with the highest mortality per capita in New Zealand. The region had 36 deaths since the start of...

  Jude Clark gives gift packages to Wairarapa Hospital staff, with duty nurse manager Sue Presow. PHOTO/HELEN HOLT A real estate agent is going the...

  GRAPHIC/TIMES-AGE HELEN HOLT [email protected] Wairarapa’s GP shortage spares no one, with a newly pregnant woman forced to seek medical treatment in Upper Hutt. The woman, who wished to...

  Wairarapa Hospital has canceled gynaecology appointments. PHOTO/GRACE PRIOR Wairarapa is without a gynaecology clinic. Staff shortages closed the clinic at Wairarapa Hospital on Tuesday and Wednesday...

  Wairarapa schools are stamping their mark on mask usage. PHOTO/ADOBESTOCK HELEN HOLT [email protected] Wairarapa schools are stamping their mark on mask usage after the government recommended principals...

  Wairarapa has had interest from British health sector workers. PHOTO/GETTY IMAGES HELEN HOLT [email protected] More than 50 medical workers from the United Kingdom and Ireland have expressed...

Cancer drug researcher Dr Swee Tan spoke at Copthorne Hotel about his trials to find an alternative cancer treatment.

  NZNO has told its members not to work extra shifts for fear of exhaustion. PHOTO/STOCK.ADOBE.COM HELEN HOLT [email protected] The nurses union is advising its members not to...