SDHB works to reduce infection rates
SDHB works to reduce infection rates
The Southern District Health Board is working with outside experts to establish why its numbers of infections of all types rose last year.
Mike Houlahan
Better care key to new strategy
Better care key to new strategy
Focusing organisations on providing better healthcare for people will ease the implementation of the new primary and community care strategy, the newly appointed chairwoman of Alliance South says.
Hospital will be built to withstand quakes, floods
Hospital will be built to withstand quakes, floods
Dunedin's new hospital will be built to withstand whatever nature can throw at it, rebuild chairman Pete Hodgson says.
Big health investment could be just the start
Big health investment could be just the start
At 20% of Government expenditure, health is always a big part of the Budget menu. Yesterday, with the biggest capital injection in health for a decade, it was the main course.
Focus on hospitals, DHB funding
Focus on hospitals, DHB funding
Fixing hospitals, enabling access to care and addressing New Zealand's ageing population were Health Minister David Clark's priorities in yesterday's Budget.
Cash boost eases Southern DHB's woes
Cash boost eases Southern DHB's woes
Keeping the old Dunedin Hospital functioning until the new one is built has probably become a great deal easier for the Southern DHB as the cash-strapped organisation gets a cash injection as part of the Budget's health-funding booster.
Govt has acted on concerns of midwives, Clark says
Govt has acted on concerns of midwives, Clark says
Community midwives received a long-awaited pay rise in yesterday's Budget.
Boost for SDHB in Budget
Boost for SDHB in Budget
The cash-strapped SDHB is to get a cash injection as part of the Budget's health funding booster.
Labour gets chance to give health a boost
Labour gets chance to give health a boost
While all the Budget day attention will be on Finance Minister Grant Robertson, arguably it is Health Minister David Clark who has the more difficult job.
Director of student health service calls time
Director of student health service calls time
Kim Ma'ia'i, director of the University of Otago's Student Health Service, is stepping down.
August date tipped for hospital contract
August date tipped for hospital contract
The main architectural contract for the new Dunedin hospital should be awarded in August, Southern Partnership Group chairman Pete Hodgson said yesterday.
Hospice preparing for future demand with training
Hospice preparing for future demand by training aged-care providers
An ageing population will place unprecedented demand on hospice services — a tide of patients Otago Community Hospice is preparing for now.
Cabinet dispensation required to reject partnership model
Cabinet dispensation required to reject partnership model
Cabinet dispensation was required for the Minister of Health to rule out a public-private partnership to build the new Dunedin Hospital, a newly released Cabinet paper says.
Tiptoeing around elephant of obesity
Tiptoeing around elephant of obesity
Few people like being told they are overweight — and portly patients seeing their doctors are no exception.
History as recalled with port and cigars
History as recalled with port and cigars
Mike Houlahan reviews France: A History: From Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich.
On course to clear wait for ophthalmology
On course to clear wait for ophthalmology
The firm hired by the Southern District Health Board to clear its backlog of ophthalmology cases says it is on course to carry out its contracted 1000 appointments.
Chosen sites stacked up well
Chosen sites stacked up well
Three other inner city sites were considered for the new Dunedin hospital before the Wilsons/Cadbury blocks were selected, a newly released Cabinet paper shows.
'Nurse Flo' galvanises support around the country
'Nurse Flo' galvanises support around the country
A social media site has transformed into a nationwide nurses movement which will stage rallies across New Zealand this weekend, including one in Dunedin.
Iwi keen to be involved
Iwi keen to be involved in hospital development
The South Island's largest iwi has sent a strong signal it wants to be involved with the Dunedin hospital development.
Holistic view urged by trust manager
Holistic view urged by trust manager
The Government inquiry into mental health and addiction needs to take a broad view, encompassing factors which cause or exacerbate patients' problems, a mental health trust manager says.