Extra administration staff have been brought in to help with the large number of appeals from elderly people who do not want to lose their housework assistance, Otago and Southland District Health Boards' regional planning and funding general manager David Chrisp says.
"I'm bored. There's nothing to do." It's a familiar cry in households during the school holidays. But take some inspiration from these Dunedin children, who show that caring for the community can be fun and rewarding.
IHC workers took their pay dispute to the picket line in Dunedin yesterday.
Thirty-eight people have entered a logo competition for the new southern health board.
A $1000 reward is being offered by a Dunedin catering company for information leading to a conviction after one of the company's vehicles was torched yesterday.
Teaming up with the Young Farmer Contest is being credited for a bumper Strath Taieri A and P show yesterday.
A Dunedin cafe owner has labelled surcharges on public holidays "greedy" while confusion over Easter Sunday's status led another Dunedin cafe to accidentally levy a surcharge for part of yesterday.
ACC's "blunderbuss" approach to tightening the scheme is hurting patients and will end up costing the corporation in appeals, says Dunedin orthopaedic surgeon John Matheson.
Sharon Dell cuts the cake at yesterday morning's celebration of 100 years since the Hocken opened at the Otago Museum.
Retiring Moana Pool plant supervisor Kevin Brown says he is proud to work at the pool he considers New Zealand's best.
A mental health outpatient programme at Dunedin Hospital may be closed, in a proposed move described as "radical" by a Dunedin psychotherapist.
Three key unions in the health sector have accepted a 2% pay rise.
It was easier to raise money for a 3-year-old with cancer than the "nameless, faceless" sick little babies in neonatal intensive care units, Weta Workshop co-founder Richard Taylor told an audience in Dunedin last night.
A major health-sector pay deal will be announced today, if three health unions jointly negotiating it ratified the proposal last night.
Minister of Education Anne Tolley's resolve on her Government's controversial national standards was under fire last night at a testy public meeting of 150 in Dunedin.
A Green Island pharmacist is putting his pseudoephedrine stocks in a safe after a smash-and-grab burglary yesterday morning.
Identical twins Frank and Cecil Coutts, who turn 95 tomorrow, were sent home at birth in a shoe box. They were so tiny the doctor suggested they would not survive.
Hundreds of elderly people have appealed against losing their housework help.
The Otago and Southland district health boards' compensation package from Telecom is worth about $24,300, says regional chief information officer Grant Taylor.
Having a sick or premature newborn is one of the most stressful times for a parent, and hopefully a new national trust will make things a bit easier, Neonatal Trust ambassador Josh Kronfeld says.
