History may repeat if New Zealand's cervical cancer screening programme is not properly monitored, and there are signs oversight could be lacking due to public sector cuts, Labour health spokeswoman Annette King says.
The Southern District Health Board's new finance director says it will take up to three months for him to get to grips with how to get the board out of its dire financial state.
The Southern District Health Board will not meet national targets for providing first specialist assessments or timely surgery in its latest set of reports to the Ministry of Health, hospital advisory papers show.
The former Montecillo war veterans' home in Dunedin could be demolished, but before a final decision is made, the site will undergo an archaeological assessment.
The new head of Dunedin Hospital's emergency department (ED) says a lack of adequate staff over the past couple of years left her ''terrified'' at times that a patient would die.
Otago and Southland rate highly in a national ranking of the safest places to be if you need healthcare.
The head of the senior doctors' union has lashed out at a 0.75% pay rise offered by district health boards, saying ''extraordinary claims'' are being used to justify it.
A funding wrangle between southern health institutions believed to involve millions of dollars shows no sign of being resolved more than two years after being referred to the Ministry of Health's business unit.
Visits to Toitu Otago Settlers Museum had topped 140,000 since it reopened in December, museum director Linda Wigley told the museum board at its meeting yesterday.
The Southern District Health Board will only get out of its ''awful bind'' if it stops wasting money through inefficiency, and then makes a case for serious investment, intensive care clinical leader Mike Hunter says.
Changes to southern home-based services will cost more than $132,000 to implement, Southern District Health Board figures show.
Patient safety will be the first focus of a Southern District Health Board project that aims to cut costs while improving services.
The Southern District Health Board has released figures showing $17,156 of expenses relating to the first six months of the secondment of a senior Wellington health manager to assist the southern board's surgical department.
Thirty-nine years as a Musselburgh GP has come to a close for Dr Ian Macbeth.
Departing health executive Robert Mackway-Jones says he has not decided whether to seek another role in the health sector when he leaves the Southern District Health Board.
The Southern District Health Board has said it would charge more than $2200 to look through emails and letters between it and six home-based support providers in order to decide whether they could be released.
The Southern District Health Board says it is able to accommodate a French-built ventilation unit made to the wrong specifications for its new operating theatre in Dunedin Hospital.
Few women work in the tough environment of the ships that provide logistical support to oil and gas vessels, says former Dunedin woman Jenni McLennan.
An alliance with Wellington's neurosurgery department might be needed to ensure the future of the South Island neurosurgical service through providing a big enough population base for sub-specialisation, former governance board chairman Prof Andrew Kaye says in the service's annual report.
Wyndham farmer Dean Rabbidge won the ANZ Young Farmer Otago-Southland regional final in Gore on Saturday and will represent the area at the final in Auckland in May.
