Patients to receive 'Richmond Shilling'
Patients to receive 'Richmond Shilling'
The traditional "Richmond Shilling" award will be distributed to Dunedin Hospital patients tomorrow.
Eileen Goodwin
Junior doctors voting on strike action
Junior doctors’ strike vote
Junior doctors are voting on whether to take strike action in the new year.
Barclay survives selection challenge
Cheers and clapping as Barclay survives challenge
Embattled National MP Todd Barclay has survived a hard-fought selection challenge in the Clutha-Southland seat.
Hospital may be relocated
Hospital may be relocated
The Government is considering shifting Dunedin Hospital away from Great King St.
Clutha-Southland split by bitter selection battle
Clutha-Southland split by bitter selection battle
Several Clutha-Southland National Party members in Gore have been dubbed the "evil six" in the increasingly bitter selection contest for the blue-ribbon seat.
Superbug strikes Wakari Hospital
Superbug strikes Wakari Hospital
The Southern District Health Board is dealing with another four cases of the superbug vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE).
Dunedin patients test positive for superbug
Dunedin patients test positive for superbug
Four patients at Wakari Hospital in Dunedin have screened positive for an antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Councillors 'railroaded' into carpark decision
Councillors 'railroaded' into carpark decision
Dunedin city councillors were ''railroaded'' into their decision about the Frederick St car park, and given inadequate information about the risk of pulling out, Cr Lee Vandervis says.
Poverty, high pay contrasted
Poverty, high pay contrasted
Inequality in New Zealand was put in stark relief this week when an annual child poverty report was released the same day as bumper state sector salary figures, a University of Otago academic says.
Dairy post service delights residents
Dairy post service delights residents
New Zealand Post isn't impressed with a makeshift postbox set up in a Dunedin dairy to help older people send letters, and has encouraged people not to use it.
State sector chiefs hit jackpot
State sector chiefs hit jackpot
The University of Otago vice-chancellor's pay increased last year by up to $30,000 to almost $600,000 in what was a bumper year for many state sector chiefs.
SDHB, doctors taken to task
SDHB, doctors taken to task
The Health and Disability Commissioner has criticised the Southern DHB and two obstetrician-gynaecologists for the inadequate care of a patient who had surgery to remove a cyst.
Child poverty monitor 'revelation'
Child poverty monitor 'revelation'
Children's commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft says he was "shaken'' by the 2016 child poverty monitor, the first to be issued since he took the advocacy role.
DCC’s ACC building deal criticised
DCC’s ACC building deal criticised
Reneging on an undertaking to earmark a strategic piece of land for the Dunedin Hospital rebuild has undermined the city’s two leading institutions, former Dunedin City councillor Hilary Calvert says.
SDHB slated for hep C stand
SDHB slated for hep C stand
A Dunedin Hospital staff member has criticised the SDHB for refusing medical support for hepatitis C sufferers who are legally importing life-changing drugs.
Larnach owner of land parcels
Larnach owner of land parcels
An unclaimed property notice in the name of banker, businessman and politician William James Mudie Larnach appeared this week in the Otago Daily Times.
Heatly took pay cut in final year
Heatly took pay cut in final year
Former Southern District Health Board chief executive Carole Heatly appears to have taken a pay cut in her final year in the job.
Woodhouse may get health portfolio
Woodhouse may get health portfolio
The troubled health portfolio is likely to be handed to Dunedin list MP Michael Woodhouse if it is vacated as a result of National's leadership contest, senior doctors' union head Ian Powell says.
More cases of sight loss
Four more cases of permanent sight deterioration
The Southern DHB has admitted another four cases of permanent sight deterioration in patients who waited too long for eye appointments.
Key sets up succession line
Key sets up succession line
Departing Prime Minister John Key is trying to manage his succession by sidelining potentially divisive candidates, a veteran political commentator says.