It might be called leisure marching, but there will be no rest for the Nelson Silveraires after attending the annual national display in Dunedin at the weekend.
Southern Primary Health Organisation was advised not to introduce the electronic referral system which is now causing concern, and instead wait for the South Island-wide system, South Island Information Systems Service Level Alliance chairman Dr Andrew Bowers, of Dunedin, says.
The Southern District Health Board does not have an "open chequebook" to give the Dunedin Hospital emergency department (ED) everything it wants, and the department appears to have enough doctors, SDHB chief medical officer (Otago) Richard Bunton says.
The head of Dunedin Hospital's emergency department (ED) has resigned in frustration at what he says are planned staffing cuts.
Dunedin's Mercy Hospital has given $50,000 to the Chair in Neurosurgery appeal, which has now toppped $1.8 million.
Bustling Mornington Health Centre, in Dunedin, is a far cry from the "dump" Dr Tony Fitchett started working in as a GP in Mornington 40 years ago.
Reported comments by Southern District Health Board deputy chairman Paul Menzies have angered Tuatapere residents trying to save the town's maternity centre.
A controversially tendered electronic referral system used by many GP practices has been defended by the Southern Primary Health Organisation.
It is "disappointing" a Southland maternity centre is vowing to stay open when its contract with Southern District Health Board expires at the end of the month, DHB deputy chairman Paul Menzies, of Invercargill, says.
Marmite supplies are on a knife-edge, and lovers of the spread are being urged to ration their use as supermarkets run low on stock.
The Southern District Health Board is no longer confident of partnering the University of Otago in funding a gastrointestinal diseases centre development, although the university remained key to establishing the centre of excellence, DHB chief operating officer (Otago) Vivian Blake says.
Multiple construction sites in progress at Dunedin Hospital are like "a big decanting jigsaw", Southern District Health Board facilities and site development manager Warren Taylor says.
Thousands of women might need to be rescreened if failings are found at Southern District Health Board's breast screening programme, which is under urgent review, after a clinical audit revealed possible delays in cancer diagnosis.
Rural GPs providing on-call services 24 hours a day will be helped by a Southern Primary Health Organisation initiative, PHO chief executive Ian Macara says.
An internal audit into the Southern District Health Board's breast screening programme had identified possible delays in diagnosing breast cancer in 28 women over a three-year period, Ministry of Health chief medical officer Dr Don Mackie said.
People living in the South might be deficient in vitamin D by the end of the winter if they have not had enough sun exposure, a joint statement from the Ministry of Health and the Cancer Society says.
Workers at Dunedin's Redroofs Rest Home voted yesterday to continue with strike action, Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU) organiser Ann Galloway said.
Pharmac will today release a summary of the "big response" it received from diabetics about proposed changes to glucose-testing equipment, a Pharmac spokesman said.
District health boards will provide free after-hours care for more than 60% of under-6-year-olds by July, and it was never the plan to do so for all young children by then, a spokeswoman for Health Minister Tony Ryall says.
The Southern District Health Board spent $107,663 buying equipment to provide retinal surgery after recruiting an eye surgeon who then stayed about 18 months, an Official Information Act request has revealed.
