Although just 16 days into his new job as Governor-General, Lieutenant-general Sir Jerry Mateparae was greeted as a returning friend at Montecillo Veterans Home and Hospital in Dunedin yesterday.
Broad Bay residents must signal "a good strong 'yes' or a good strong 'no' " to a proposal that would see the community hall sold to pay for a new community facility, Broad Bay Waterfront Inc secretary Allan Potter says.
The Dunedin City Council has cancelled the next two Rugby World Cup trains from Waitati to Dunedin because of low ticket sales.
Doctors appear not to have been adequately advised on how to prescribe a blood-thinning drug which has attracted attention for possible safety issues, Prof Stephen Duffull, of the University of Otago's School of Pharmacy, says.
A South Dunedin health products manufacturer is relieved proposed regulation of the sector seems not as draconian as feared.
Dunedin woman Debbie Williams says people with Essential tremor often withdraw from life because they are ashamed.
Dunedin's former "pen man" John Griffiths does not regret his hard work raising money for charity, but wishes he had taken life a bit more gently.
Nationwide supply problems with high strength nicotine patches has caused a headache for some Dunedin pharmacies.
A grateful Dunedin Management Venues Ltd chief executive David Davies (left) checks two donated external defibrillators (AED) as Dunedin cardiologist Associate Prof Gerard Wilkins explains how they work.
The Southern Primary Health Organisation wants more money from the Southern District Health Board.
Departing Southern District Health Board chief Brian Rousseau was presented with a $1200 watercolour painting as a gift at a farewell dinner in Queenstown last week.
Dunedin mental health services advocate Jim Crowe has been appointed to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' general council, its first community representative.
Parents have been in tears over a termination notice served last week to Dunedin Hospital Early Childhood Centre by the Southern District Health Board, chairwoman Rachael Lee says.
Research your family tree and you are virtually guaranteed to turn up a dark secret, Salt Lake City genealogist Judy Jones says.
Dunedin Hospital would be "dead last" in New Zealand for prompt emergency department treatment if it were not for Southland Hospital propping it up, intensive care clinical leader Mike Hunter told a health symposium in Dunedin yesterday.
It is "almost immoral" not to introduce safety improvement changes that potentially save lives, Dunedin Hospital internal medicine specialist Dr Andrew Bowers told a health systems symposium in Dunedin yesterday.
Southern District Health Board is second-to-last among DHBs for promptness of treatment in its emergency departments, the latest Government health targets show.
Southern District Health Board deputy chief executive Lexie O'Shea will be acting chief executive until Brian Rousseau's replacement is appointed.
The Southern District Health Board has $110,000 unused primary healthcare funds because of a two-month delay signing the Southern Primary Health Organisation's plan.
A "facilitated workshop" will clarify the roles of the DHB's board and management in response to criticism the two had become mixed up, a paper prepared for tomorrow's Southern District Health Board's hospitals' advisory committee says.
