Fourteen months after a controversial plan was revealed, southern hospital kitchen staff have demanded answers about their jobs at a Southern District Health Board meeting in Dunedin.
The Southern District Health Board has approved a $1.75 million repair job to fix Dunedin Hospital's seven-storey clinical services building.
University of Otago researchers have told BMJ (formerly called the British Medical Journal) to be more transparent after it highlighted a glowing report about the Canterbury District Health Board without disclosing who paid for it.
Waiting up to a year for an ultrasound in the South is ''incomprehensible'', Dunedin South MP Clare Curran says.
Southern District Health Board members will consider a request for up to $1.75 million to fix the leaking clinical services building at Dunedin Hospital when they meet in Dunedin tomorrow.
A Dunedin organisation has secured a multimillion-dollar contract to provide indigenous health IT for Northern Territory, Australia.
Tired of totting up facts and figures every year on child poverty, Dunedin epidemiologist Dr Liz Craig decided to take action.
Any new work between the Otago Regional Council (ORC) and Invermay agricultural research centre is a ''sideline'' to the ''damage'' done by the restructuring plan confirmed this week, ORC chairman Stephen Woodhouse says.
Mercy Hospital, in Dunedin, has received a national occupational safety award for eliminating toxic smoke plumes in operating theatres.
Southern District Health Board should immediately release a long-awaited report into the cause of an IT crash that created havoc in February, Dunedin North MP David Clark says.
A prestigious research position endowed at the University of Otago seven years ago remains empty because it has been difficult to attract top talent to Dunedin, its benefactor says.
Ross Home and Hospital, in Dunedin, will now stay in lockdown until after the long weekend to be sure it is ''110% cleared'' of gastroenteritis, manager Margaret Pearce says.
Winston Peters homed in on power prices and the evils of the ''market'' in a speech to mainly elderly people in South Dunedin yesterday.
Parents who cannot afford to take their children to the doctor will benefit from free GP visits and prescriptions announced in the Budget, Silverstream School principal Elizabeth Cleverley says.
Democracy must be extended to the workplace before big gaps in income will change, Spirit Level author Prof Richard Wilkinson told an audience in Dunedin yesterday.
A campaign to save the Dunedin-based National Poisons Centre has struck a chord with parents, Dunedin North MP Dr David Clark says.
Southern breast-screening staff have to wait longer to know whether they keep their jobs, because the health board is in talks to outsource another service.
Three cardiology transfer patients died after the Southern District Health Board started to transport patients to Christchurch when no service was available in the South.
The Southern District Health Board did not need advice from an American-based firm, as there is plenty of help available closer to home, the senior doctors' union says.
A building at Dunedin Hospital deteriorated more quickly than anyone expected, Southern District Health Board chairman Joe Butterfield says.
