Health conditions, such as asthma and hypothyroidism, affect many people in our communities. Eileen Goodwin talks to people about how these conditions affect their lives.
Health conditions such as asthma and hypothyroidism affect many people in our communities. Eileen Goodwin talks to people about how these conditions affect their lives.
The chief executive of the cash-strapped Southern District Health Board has had a pay rise, the total package topping $500,000 in the last financial year.
The Dunedin City Council has been asked to apply for an urgent stop work order amid concerns quarrying of the lower hump of Saddle Hill could cause it to collapse.
The South will be hit especially hard by potential health cuts revealed in a leaked Cabinet committee paper, the senior doctors' union warns.
Health conditions, such as asthma and hypothyroidism, affect many people in our communities. Eileen Goodwin talks to people about the impact these conditions have on their lives.
Health conditions, such as asthma and hypothyroidism, affect many people in our communities. Eileen Goodwin talks to people about how these conditions affect their lives.
A man has been arrested after an apparent booze-fuelled Boxing Day stabbing in Dunedin.
Almost every member of the Knox Church congregation was brought up to the altar during the Christmas service yesterday to re-enact the nativity scene.
Newborn Lucy Hobson seemed determined to bide her time for a bit to arrive on Christmas morning.
An animated video clip depicting the chief executive as a dancing Christmas elf has reportedly ''stunned'' some doctors at the Southern District Health Board.
A Dunedin study that cleared fluoride of adversely affecting IQ has been sharply criticised in an academic letter published in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
Losing the right to train intensive care unit specialists in Dunedin Hospital is an ''unpleasant surprise'' that will affect staff recruitment, Southern District Health Board's medical director of surgery says.
The Southern District Health Board has released figures showing just three of its 116 staff earning a top salary are non-clinical.
The Auckland-based entity driving the privatisation of southern hospital kitchens refuses to release information about purported savings, citing commercial sensitivity.
After 26 years as a district nurse in Strath Taieri, Pauline Carruthers says she has missed contact with patients in their own homes since leaving the position.
Job losses are possible if southern hospital kitchens are privatised, the Southern District Health Board says.
The South will not be left behind by a new cancer treatment target, but there will be challenges in some areas, medical oncology clinical leader Dr Blair McLaren says.
Hospital kitchens in Dunedin, Queenstown and Invercargill will be privatised, provided the benefits stack up, the Southern District Health Board announced yesterday.
Carers' Society Otago is to lose a substantial chunk of its funding in a Ministry of Health shake-up.
