The Southern District Health Board drew more complaints about its handling of Official Information Act requests than any other health board in 2013-14, figures in the Office of the Ombudsman's annual report show.
Time marches on but Marching Otago's 1960s-era heyday was fondly recalled at the club's 70th anniversary in Dunedin at the weekend.
A chef at Walter Peak High Country Farm was flown to Southland Hospital yesterday with moderate burns caused by a flare-up from a wood-fired barbecue.
Whether they condemn or sympathise with the poor, people care about ''sick children'', the founding editor of the University of Otago's child poverty monitor says.
Repairs continue on Dunedin Hospital's east face, on Cumberland St.
Anglican Family Care Centre staff are taking industrial action because of a pay dispute.
In some ways, anaesthetists are victims of their own success, Dunedin Hospital anaesthetist Dr Andrew Smith says.
Managers and staff at Dunedin Hospital celebrated with cake yesterday because the intensive care unit had achieved 1000 days without a central line associated bacteraemia (Clab).
Inspector Mel Aitken, of Dunedin police, opens Asthma Otago's marathon event at the Fraser Building at Dunedin Hospital yesterday with organiser and participant Murray Moore alongside.
The troubled Southern District Health Board is reaching crisis point. Health reporter Eileen Goodwin examines its challenges ahead of the announcement on Monday of the new health minister.
An attempt to raise the subject of recent high-level resignations at the Southern District Health Board was blocked yesterday by the chairman at a board meeting in Dunedin.
Frustrated senior doctors need to see beyond their specialty area and recognise the limits of health funding, Southern District Health Board chief executive Carole Heatly says.
The senior doctors' union has warned the South may lose services to Christchurch, and says the Southern District Health Board is abrogating responsibility for its patients.
Mosgiel GP Richard Muir (65) has retired after 36 years of treating local patients.
Some specialist services at Dunedin Hospital may not be viable as stand-alone services because they do not have a sufficient population base to support them, a health plan out for consultation today says.
New Labour leader contender David Parker is promising a gentler, kinder type of politics if he wins the top job.
It would be wrong to characterise the Southern District Health Board as an ''unhappy DHB'', new health minister Dr Jonathan Coleman says.
Dunedin-based research due for release early next year may help determine if there is a link between obesity and antibiotic use.
One of few bright spots for the Labour Party on election night was hanging on to the party vote in Dunedin North, but special votes have overturned its 24-vote lead in that electorate.
A St John ambulance fundraising initiative is on hold after a Dunedin man complained to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
