Similar to last year, Hato Hone St John reported a "very light workload" at this year’s annual Hyde St Party on Saturday, Coastal Otago operations manager Doug Third said.
A total of seven patients were treated across the day.
Two in a moderate condition were transported to Dunedin Hospital, while the remaining five were treated for minor conditions at the scene, he said.
"It was a very well-managed event, and our team were very pleased with the overall behaviour of the attendees."
Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin, said police made no arrests.
Bede Crestani, the father of University of Otago student Sophia Crestani who died at a Dunedin flat party in 2019, said the event was well-organised, with no visible glass and lots of people having a good time.
"It’s exactly the sort of event that we’re really pleased to see.
"Hyde St ... [is] a really good event and we’d like to see more of it."
The street party follows last month’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations, which saw eight women hit in the head by flying glass bottles and a wallaby burnt to a crisp in one of four couch fires before dawn.
More work needed to be done to understand unorganised gatherings such as those on St Patrick’s Day, address broken glass and figure out what could be done, Mr Crestani said.
This year’s O-Week and Flo Week had both been "pretty good", and the Hyde St event had been responsibly run for quite some time.
"I think that the messages are getting through and the agencies are working really hard in the background to provide a message to people organising events ... and they’re listening."
Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) president Liam White said he thought the event went "extremely well" from a safety perspective.
"I saw one guy throw an empty can into a crowd and I saw his mate behind him smack him in the back of the head, so it’s really good that students are holding each other to account with poor behaviour like that.
"Everybody that I spoke to said they were having an awesome day [and] that they felt really safe."
It was good to show what "positive partying" could look like and how it could be translated to other events.
"I think Hyde is so far the model for what good, safe street parties can look like."
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