Objective: Depression is a common comorbidity of diabetes, undesirably affecting patients' physical and mental functioning.

Though the situation is worst in Auckland, it is affecting patients around the whole country.

There are also issues of patient education and psychosocial support adversely affecting patients' quality of life.

De novo spondylodiscitis affecting patients presenting FD and its subsequent management was not previously described in the literature.

ALMOST 84,000 clinical errors or adverse incidents affecting patients were recorded in Irish hospitals last year.

Four hospitals in Northern Ireland have been forced to close more than 70 beds to new admissions because of a virus affecting patients and staff.

Pharmac has backed down on a controversial drug brand switch affecting patients with epilepsy and mental health conditions after three people died following the change.

The regulator said there was "a state of unease within the medical profession across the UK that risks affecting patients as well as doctors".