University of Otago contract law specialist Prof Rex Ahdar says criteria used to select home-based support providers were probably broad enough to protect the Southern District Health Board from a legal challenge.
Keeping occupied is the secret to a long and happy marriage, Eric Brinsdon, who celebrates his 75th wedding anniversary today, says.
Hundreds of people turned down for surveillance colonoscopies at Dunedin Hospital in recent years are being contacted to see if they still need one.
The Southern District Health Board says it is reviewing the role of its Otago GP liaison officer after Dr Anne Worsnop's departure from the role this month.
Andrea Murphy, a Dunedin mother of three, depends on a drug company's largesse to keep her alive, and wants Pharmac to fund her ''miracle'' drug at a cost of about $500,000 a year.
The Southern District Health Board has not adequately explained its decision to dump Presbyterian Support Otago (PSO) as a home-based support provider, Dunedin South MP Clare Curran told a protest in Dunedin yesterday.
Legal advice supports the claim Presbyterian Support Otago (PSO) was dumped as a home-based support provider using a flawed process, PSO board chairman Frazer Barton says. Yesterday, PSO wrote to Southern District Health Board requesting a meeting with board members, on the basis of the legal advice, to argue its case.
Dunedin Hospital's long-awaited ninth operating theatre has been delayed by about two months.
Is it realistic to expect every single doctor is up to the job? The Dunedin-based chairman of the Medical Council, Dr John Adams, does not think so.
A Dunedin couple say it will be a false economy if savings are sought through restricting grommet surgery.
Presbyterian church networks are being enlisted to fight the dumping of Presbyterian Support Otago (PSO) as a provider of home-based support for older people in the South.
Otago has the country's highest rate of grommet insertion - a procedure in the sights of a Government health committee tasked with finding savings in the health sector.
The Southern District Health Board has now spent at least $410,000 obtaining outside advice in a bid to improve its financial performance.
The Southern District Health Board has more than doubled its spending on communications and public relations in the past two years.
Department of Conservation staff have been told further job losses are possible as it enters another round of restructuring.
A New Zealand-first cancer survivorship programme in Dunedin which dispenses free GP visits could be a model for others, facilitator Dr Sue Walthert says.
Dunedin's Immigration New Zealand office will close, it was confirmed yesterday.
South Otago farmers have been advised to move stock, as heavy rain is expected today in Otago and other parts of the South Island.
Thirty-four Otago primary schools have signed up for Fonterra's milk in schools programme.
Profiling investors who profited from the sub-prime mortgage crash might sound like a catalogue of avarice, but Lewis's 2010 book depicts them as endearing eccentrics challenging the group-think that caused the crisis.
