After the release of hundreds of heavily redacted pages of the Compass Group-DHB food contract, the public is none the wiser about whether it got a good deal, Dunedin South MP Clare Curran says.
District health board bosses were grilled in Wellington yesterday on the need to make up their minds whether to join the Compass Group food contract.
A low number of births in the Tuatapere area has forced another rethink about how maternity care is provided, the Waiau Health Trust says.
A health union is questioning a bill of more than $978,000 the Southern District Health Board has run up with an Auckland consulting firm.
The needs of older people are being ignored by New Zealand Post officials sitting in "ivory towers'' who are removing postboxes in Dunedin, a Brockville resident says.
The commissioner regime is costing the Southern District Health Board more than $7000 in fees and expenses every week, an Official Information Act request shows.
Convicted fraudster Michael Swann's "comprehensive skill set'' has been put to use managing a $2 million project in Christchurch.
The 37 women who perished in the Seacliff Mental Hospital fire should be remembered for who they were, not just for the fire that killed them, relatives of two of the victims say.
A controversial public private partnership (PPP) will be considered for the Dunedin Hospital redevelopment, documents shows.
Tidying up wards and re-organising storerooms at Dunedin Hospital makes patients safer and frees up staff, project leaders say.
More than half of staff who responded to a survey at Southern District Health Board report that colleagues are "often'' rude to each other.
A recommendation for a new bargaining process to settle gender equity pay claims might just be another stalling tactic to delay paying caregivers and other workers a fair wage, a University of Otago employment law expert says.
An "individualist new-right'' attitude that holds sway in New Zealand is holding back organ donation rates, a University of Otago biomedical ethics authority says.
Dunedin playwright and Maori health authority Prof John Broughton is keen to share the credit for his Queen's Birthday honour, announced today.
The release of the Compass Group's contract with Southern District Health Board has been delayed a second time.
A computer system GPs have been "calling out for'' is finally on its way, a sector leader says.
The loss of two highly regarded human resources managers at the Southern District Health Board has left staff and unions reeling.
A rainy Saturday provided the perfect weather for the inaugural South Island sport stacking tournament held in Dunedin at the weekend, as it was good to be indoors.
A Dunedin chef designs and oversees the menus in all of Radius Care's 22 facilities after the aged care provider was burned by a bad outsourcing experience.
