By AKOORIE, Natalie Thousands of hours of irreplaceable work belonging to hundreds of Waikato District Health Board staff has been lost permanently after computer experts failed to retrieve two-thirds of crashed data.

By PALMER, Rebecca Rebecca Palmer profiles candidates for the Wellington region's district health boards. -------------------- DOCTORS and nurses are the familiar faces of our health system.

By THOMAS, Kim; HAYMAN, Kamala A $120 million deal for 20,000 hospital nurses is expected to be announced today, despite the nation's largest health board warning of "massive implications" for the sector.

What do you see as the role of a South Canterbury District Health Board member and what do you believe you can achieve? John Abraham: The DHB is charged with the management of bulk funds provided by the minister of health to provide health services to South Canterbury.

By Akoorie Natalie A stopwork meeting of senior doctors at Waikato Hospital yesterday unanimously agreed to hold a ballot to decide on strike action if negotiations with district health boards continue to break down.