Action over mail delays
Action over mail delays
Private mail provider DX Mail agreed to date-stamp letters and develop a complaints register in response to ongoing complaints about its Southern District Health Board delivery service.
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Surgery league tables caution
Surgery league tables caution
Publishing surgical league tables could be problematic in the South, where people are older and more likely to have surgical complications, Medical Council chairman Andrew Connolly says.
System scrapped under outsourcing
System scrapped under outsourcing
An electronic food system worth $350,000 will be scrapped if Dunedin Hospital's kitchen is outsourced.
Errors in party mail-out admitted
Errors in party mail-out admitted
Dunedin North MP David Clark has admitted a ''dopey'' mistake in a Labour mail-out survey about Dunedin health services.
New perspective on SDHB woes
New perspective on SDHB woes
The man drafted in to help the Southern District Health Board says he provided a new perspective on the organisation's ''significant challenges''.
Geckos poached from peninsula returned
Geckos poached from peninsula returned
Otago Peninsula jewelled geckos smuggled to Germany are the first to return to New Zealand under strengthened rules designed to crack down on poaching.
Expects Delta to be paid 'millions'
Expects Delta to be paid 'millions'
Delta is confident of being paid a ''significant portion'' of a potential bad debt, worth millions of dollars, Dunedin City Holdings Ltd chairman Graham Crombie says.
Loan disclosure fuels health body scrutiny
Loan disclosure fuels health body scrutiny
A controversial organisation set up to save big money for district health boards is under more scrutiny as it has emerged it owes the Government millions of dollars - and DHBs might be forced to pay it.
Obscure health funding upsets
Obscure health funding upsets
Concerns over the fairness and secrecy of health funding have re-emerged in the wake of Southern District Health Board warning its deficit has blown out and it must cut costs.
Six in Signal Hill crash
Six in Signal Hill crash
Six people were taken to Dunedin Hospital after their car crashed on Signal Hill Rd, in Dunedin today.
Reprieve on hospital kitchens
Reprieve on hospital kitchens
Unions have succeeded in securing a one-month delay in the decision on whether to outsource southern hospital kitchens.
No 'jabs' flu vaccination approach paying off
No 'jabs' flu vaccination approach paying off
Avoiding talk of ''jabs'' and ''shots'' in the staff influenza vaccination campaign at the University of Otago seems to be paying off.
SDHB in 'serious freefall'
SDHB in 'serious freefall'
Health Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman has rejected a claim the Government is considering installing a commissioner at the Southern District Health Board.
Volunteers unhappy at meals plan
Volunteers unhappy at meals plan
A proposal to outsource meals on wheels could put drivers in an ''awkward position'' because they volunteer to help the community, not a multinational company, historian and long-serving meals on wheels driver Dr Terry Hearn says.
Coronial postmortem pathologists 'agitating' for years for change
Coronial postmortem pathologists 'agitating' for years for change
Dunedin pathologists who conduct coronial postmortems have been ''agitating'' for change for years but the Ministry of Justice has not listened, Southern Community Laboratories (SCL) medical director Dr Peter Fitzgerald says.
Jan leaves neonatal career on high note
Jan leaves neonatal career on high note
Picking the high point of 15 years as charge nurse manager at Dunedin Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (Nicu) is not too difficult for Jan Seuseu.
New principal settling in at Elmgrove School
New principal settling in at Elmgrove School
Being a new principal has been a learning experience for Chris McKinlay.
Campaign to save physio pool
Campaign to save physio pool
The pool that has benefited thousands of people now needs the public's help.
Positives in meals outsourcing - report
Positives in meals outsourcing - report
The money invested in Dunedin Hospital's kitchen in recent years was not analysed in a report out this week giving the green light to outsourcing, its author says.
Missing tramper found
Missing tramper found
A missing tramper in the Fiordland area has been found safe and well today.