Health Minister Tony Ryall has rejected a request by the senior doctors' union to intervene in a staffing numbers issue at Dunedin Hospital's emergency department (ED).
Funding for skin lesion removal in general practice should be increased to help the Southern District Health Board's struggling ear, nose, and throat (ENT) service, Dr Peter Ripley says.
A long-running aged-care wage dispute has been settled, with union members at Redroofs Rest Home in Dunedin accepting 3.22%.
The Southern District Health Board is appealing to people not to be put off going to their GP, as Dunedin Hospital struggles with high demand.
The Southern District Health Board spends more time deliberating behind closed doors now because annual planning work, which used to be done in workshops, has shifted to DHB meetings, chairman Joe Butterfield says.
A Dunedin pharmacist has written to his customers explaining why he breached pharmacy rules he says were not consistent with his duty of care to patients.
Health Minister Tony Ryall surprised Dunedin Hospital emergency department staff with an impromptu visit yesterday.
It is disappointing healthy eating programmes are ending at the end of this month, Southern District Health Board member Sandra Cook says.
The funding formula used to hand out $9 billion of public money for health cannot be fully deciphered, a University of Otago technical report says.
The Southern District Health Board is to seek a provider for a dementia daycare service, a report to today's disability and public health committee meeting in Dunedin says.
Radiology services are to be reviewed across Otago and Southland as the Southern District Health Board continues efforts to reduce waiting times for tests.
The Southern District Health Board's projected deficit has worsened to $10.2 million, a report to Thursday's board meeting says.
Bowel cancer is at long last getting the recognition it deserves, Southern District Health Board colorectal surgeon Associate Prof Mark Thompson-Fawcett says.
Some chronic nasal conditions will have to be treated by GPs because the Southern District Health Board's ear, nose, and throat department cannot cope with demand, service clinical leader Jamie Ryan says.
Dunedin researchers are appealing for the public to help fund stem cell research they say pharmaceutical companies will not touch.
Another 12,000 New Zealanders will have died from bowel cancer in the decade or so it could take to set up a national screening programme, Beat Bowel Cancer Aotearoa says.
The Southern District Health Board is introducing a single chief medical position, instead of chiefs in Otago and Southland, chief executive Carole Heatly has decided.
The Waiau Health Trust has accepted a funding offer from the Southern District Health Board to run Tuatapere Maternity, even though it fears the amount is insufficient, trust chairman Justin Lewis says.
An Otago-only scheme that gives older people greater control over their home help could be axed by the Southern District Health Board.
The Southern District Health Board has followed up with most of the women involved in concerns its breast-screening programme might have had a higher than acceptable rate of false negative readings.
