Eileen Goodwin

New HIV cases are at their highest level since monitoring began in 1985, new figures show.

Mental health is no longer ``out of sight, out of mind'', the country's head of mental health says.

An anonymous complaint submitted by a group of midwives alleging midwifery is at a ''crisis point'' is being handled by the Ministry of Health.

The politically-appointed group involved with the Dunedin Hospital redevelopment incurred fees and expenses of nearly $84,000 in a 12-month period, an Official Information Act response shows.

Patients are waiting up to 272 days for an MRI scan and 210 days for a CT scan at Southern District Health Board.

Neurosurgeons from Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch are regularly visiting Dunedin to support the city’s sole neurosurgeon.

The sensitivity and importance of Dunedin Hospital's radiology department has been highlighted in a contract document seeking bids for work to keep it operational.

Southern District Health Board chief executive Chris Fleming will meet nurses' representatives to discuss their fears about a forthcoming sweeping management restructuring.

A project director who has worked on large hospital builds has been drafted in to the Dunedin Hospital redevelopment to help with a crucial decision.

Mondelez International has decided not to seek a ratepayer handout for the Cadbury Chocolate Carnival after its plan to do so sparked public indignation.

Claims he wants out of the health portfolio are "complete nonsense", Health Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman says.

Labour has made a big deal out of health funding and it is a front-line election issue, but fiscal responsibility is a core component of its election pitch, so what will change if it is elected,...

Nurses are "devastated" by the proposed restructuring at the Southern District Health Board.

Complaints about Dunedin’s bus network dominated a meeting convened by the Labour and Green parties to discuss aged care yesterday.

Little progress appears to have been made in securing a local manufacturer to make ''iconic'' Cadbury sweets after the Dunedin factory closes.

Uncertainty about the size of the Dunedin Hospital rebuild appears to have forced the Ministry of Health to delay a plan to gauge private sector interest in taking a stake in it.

Patients have been waiting up to two months for a ''brief intervention service'' in general practice for mental health issues in the South.

It is time for ``radical reform'' of medical education in New Zealand, Waikato District Health Board chief executive Dr Nigel Murray says.

The bid by Waikato District Health Board and Waikato University  for a medical school has greatly perturbed Otago and Auckland universities, writes Eileen Goodwin.