A new electronic patient meal ordering system in Southern District Health Board hospitals will still be used if hospital food preparation is centralised to Christchurch, the board says.
The heart she was given allowed Veronica Ball another eight precious years of life, her grieving family said this week.
The crucial role mentors play helping new nurses fit in has been highlighted at Dunedin Hospital.
Visual impairment is an ignored public health issue, says a founding trustee of a new Dunedin-based national organisation which has been established to bring about change.
Concern health staff do not understand the implications of their views entering the public arena was behind a decision to withhold their details, the Southern District Health Board says.
Dunedin man Jason May is taking his son, Sinclair, to Hong Kong for a month to undergo tongue acupuncture from the man who pioneered the technique.
A Dunedin referendum on fluoride would stir up old arguments which have been settled by science, Southern District Health Board chairman Joe Butterfield says.
That a pilot bowel cancer screening programme is credited with saving 60 lives in its first year highlights the ''outrage'' of not introducing it nationwide, University of Otago health services researcher Dr Sarah Derrett says.
Two Oamaru schools have been selected for a healthy relationships pilot programme run by the Sophie Elliott Foundation.
Newborn Matilda Corrie, held by Dunedin midwife Cheryl Smith, and her mother, Tracey Woodford, were presented with a storybook to mark International Day of the Midwife at the Queen Mary Maternity Centre in Dunedin yesterday.
It seems trophies can be also be weapons, in the view of airline security.
Departing planning and funding head Robert Mackway-Jones has been credited with improving the Southern District Health Board's relationships with the public, as the board farewells the long-standing executive.
The Iwi Governance Committee has ''strong views'' on the possible outcomes of a Ministry of Justice coronial services shake-up, Southern District Health Board member Sandra Cook said yesterday.
The Southern District Health Board has overhauled the way it deals with patient complaints.
New fire safety rules for aged residential care facilities are ''a nonsense'' that could trigger full fire safety upgrades when an alteration is carried out, New Zealand Aged Care Association Otago Southland board member Malcolm Hendry says.
The wisdom of doling out hundreds of pills at a time was questioned by a Southern District Health Board member yesterday.
Poor access to surgery forces the renal service into a ''vicious cycle'' in which patients are not always prepared surgically for home dialysis, which then pressures hospital services, Dunedin Hospital nephrologist Dr John Schollum said yesterday.
The Southern District Health Board will share another health board's planning executive for nine months while it reviews the role being vacated by Robert Mackway-Jones.
A new operating theatre opening next week at Dunedin Hospital should reduce waiting times for elective surgery, the Southern District Health Board says.
Aged residential care providers are complaining about falling occupancy rates, as the health board keeps more older people at home, a report to the Southern District Health Board disability support committee says.
