The impartiality of the Australian neurosurgeon who will help decide the future configuration of neurosurgery in the South Island has been called into question by a Dunedin Hospital clinical leader.
Medical radiation technologists (MRTs) at Dunedin Hospital and Invercargill's Southland Hospital are again taking industrial action over the long-running pay dispute with District Health Boards New Zealand (DHBNZ).
Four people were injured after a three-car smash in central Dunedin last night.
The Southern District Health Board is shedding six full-time jobs in its planning and funding, and finance divisions.
Health Minister Tony Ryall has turned down the Southern District Health Board's controversial proposal to take fee-paying chemotherapy patients.
The tragic incident in an Auckland pharmacy last week is a scenario feared by every pharmacist, says Dunedin pharmacy owner Chin Loh.
St Kilda pensioner John Currie's housework help has been doubled to an hour a week, leaving him "delighted".
Youth victims and witnesses should be treated with the same flexibility and understanding as youth offenders, Minister of Justice, Simon Power, told an audience at the University of Otago yesterday.
"Outrage and anger" are the dominant feelings of southern radiographers who have declared a 24-hour strike in support of northern members suspended for taking industrial action, southern union organiser Bernadette Gourley says.
St Kilda pensioner John Currie said he was so worried about his housework help being cut to 30 minutes a week, he ended up in hospital.
The Southern District Health Board risked getting into a "stoush" if a rural maternity review was not handled correctly, warned two board members at yesterday's disability support and community and public health advisory committee meeting in Dunedin.
Sophie Barker wants to make sure no-one has the same neurosurgery experience as her.
The housework cuts being imposed by the Southern District Health Board have spurred a Dunedin elder activities group to extend its services.
A national review of a procedure performed only at Dunedin Hospital is "presumably coincidental" with the neurosurgery decision process, radiation oncologist Dr Shaun Costello says.
Receiving 92 replies to the Warrington boy racer survey was an impressively large response, Waikouaiti Coast Community Board chairman Alasdair Morrison says.
Health Minister Tony Ryall acknowledged yesterday in Parliament he is accountable for the neurosurgery decision.
A suggestion in a medical magazine that cardiac services at Dunedin are under threat appears to be speculation, says Southern District Health Board (SDHB) chief executive Brian Rousseau.
The Cancer Society fears the effect on cancer sufferers if Dunedin loses neurosurgery.
After her head was impaled on a fence following a horrific car crash, Mel Marshall's family was told emergency neurosurgery was her only hope of surviving.
Pressure sores on an elderly woman's heels and a rash in her groin prompted her daughter to complain about the standard of care she received at Dunedin's Belhaven Rest Home.
