Tourists could be saved from getting in a "hell of a pickle" if GPS systems stopped sending them up paper roads, Otago Peninsula Community Board member Senior Constable Lox Kellas says.
The Southern District Health Board proposes establishing a "director of patient services", instead of two chief operating officers.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed the Southern District Health Board will remain the national provider of a specialised radiation procedure, while a Dunedin Hospital senior doctor says it is only a matter of time before the service cannot cope with demand.
The Southern District Health Board will be restructured to create regional clinical service groupings, rather than duplications, in Dunedin and Invercargill.
Nurses should find out more next week about possible job losses resulting from cuts to Wakari Hospital's specialist rehabilitation service (Isis).
The Southern District Health Board has backed down on planned cuts to medical staff at Dunedin Hospital's emergency department, the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists says.
The honeymoon appears well and truly over between the senior doctors' union and Health Minister Tony Ryall.
Cancer survival rates have improved markedly - although the picture is not so rosy if you are Maori or poor, a University of Otago report says.
The Southern District Health Board has called for expressions of interest from health providers wanting to be based at Lakes District Hospital, as the DHB implements National Health Board recommendations.
More than 100 submissions on the Southern District Health Board's sector-wide mental-health and addiction plan are being considered, finance and funding general manager Robert Mackway-Jones says.
The Ministry of Health will start gathering colonoscopy data from district health boards, but it should not be seen as a "report card" of DHBs, Ministry of Health cancer programme national clinical director Dr John Childs says.
Dunedin Hospital's audiology department has re-tested 134 children following concerns about testing protocol, but clinicians are not finding problems, audiologist Robyn McNeur says.
Tuatapere Maternity may get a six-month reprieve from Southern District Health Board, the Waiau Health Trust says.
The Southern Primary Health Organisation failed to meet targets for delivering primary health measures to high-needs patients in seven of nine categories in the six months to December 2011.
Woodhaugh Rest Home, in Dunedin, is addressing shortcomings identified in a Ministry of Health audit carried out in February, Cressida Healthcare general manager Colleen Stairmand, of Auckland, says.
An additional dedicated acute surgery list at Dunedin Hospital has been held up because of a lack of specialist staff.
Losing World Heritage status as a possible consequence of the proposed Fiordland monorail would be a "huge blow for us all" , tourism operator Real Journeys said in a submission at the first day of a hearing in Te Anau yesterday.
A Broad Bay group plans to start fundraising to build a $1.4 million shared waterfront facility, Waterfront Inc chairman Richard Good, of Portobello, says.
Three prospective professors of neurosurgery will be interviewed next month for the Chair in Neurosurgery at the University of Otago.
Southern District Health Board hospital doctors' salaries were $865,000 over budget in February, despite a warning from DHB chairman Joe Butterfield to get them under control.
