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'Frankly disgusting': Hospital staff told to only speak English with patients
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Letters: Tom Phillips must be stopped
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'Systems weaknesses': Intimate patient procedures carried out by students, trainees
The report pointed towards weaknesses in the system across the country.
Nitrous oxide still being sold to young people in the early hours
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Dr Jacob Goldenberg of Total Health Dentistry had been suspended since March last year.
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'Deep impact': Middlemore Hospital announces changes after man's death in overcrowded ED
Tony Knott collapsed and died in the toilet at Middlemore Hospital's ED waiting room.
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