New Zealand has kept pace internationally with senior doctors' pay, except compared with Australia, Dunedin Hospital emergency specialist and Association of Salaried Medical Specialists representative Dr John Chambers says.
It was during the 2010 neurosurgery campaign that Margaret Sykes started to think something was wrong with her right arm.
It is typical of low-key Dunedin that the work and good deeds of a 51-year-old medical teaching trust fly under the radar, Dunedin Basic Medical Science Trust chairman Richard Bunton says.
Fundraising for neuro-surgery is climbing, with $1,149,874 raised towards the $3 million total, project manager Irene Mosley says.
Dunedin Hospital's emergency department had a particularly busy December but still performed reasonably well in keeping waiting times in check, Otago chief operating officer Vivian Blake told the hospital's advisory committee in Dunedin this week.
Real progress is being made on resolving the issue of Wakatipu health services, Southern District Health Board chairman Joe Butterfield said yesterday.
The Southern District Health Board will seek $16.65 million to meet its deficit and fund future capital works.
A public campaign to fund a world-class neurosurgery research and teaching centre in Dunedin is under way.
A senior Dunedin Hospital emergency department specialist says Southern District Health Board management appear to have backtracked on recruiting an extra 4.5 senior medical officers for the department.
The childhood immunisation register should be expanded to include general health information as part of efforts to protect vulnerable children, Southern District Health Board member Kaye Crowther told a health committee yesterday.
Why some elderly people do not take up their free flu jab was the subject of a discussion at a Southern District Health Board committee yesterday.
The Southern District Health Board's hospitals' advisory committee is having a rethink about the frequency it meets, and is recommending it keep meeting monthly.
The Southern District Health Board's financial outlook for the next six months has slipped, with the board's finance chief forecasting a $10 million deficit.
A second mental health service building in Dunedin, in Union St, does not meet seismic strength requirements, a report to the Southern District Health Board's hospitals' advisory committee today says.
Political parties should reach bipartisan agreement on how much money will be spent on child health services, a draft Southern District Health Board submission on the green paper on vulnerable children says.
The Southern District Health Board has established an advisory committee to guide planning for changes to how the elderly receive care.
A woman whose broken back was misdiagnosed at Dunedin Hospital's emergency department as abrasions and bruises says the department must get the extra specialists that doctors say it needs.
There has been immense improvement in Dunedin Hospital's emergency department (ED), Mosgiel resident Margaret O'Donnell says.
The neurosurgery fundraising campaign is a third of the way to its target, with just over $1 million raised.
The $3.6 million acute mental health ward at Wakari Hospital opens on Monday, replacing the Dunedin Hospital facility.
