Eileen Goodwin

Trista Townsend did not think she could be at risk of breast cancer as a healthy young mother with no significant family history of the disease.

The Southern District Health Board has been accused of inaccurately presenting the situation faced by the Otago Fertility Service in its bid to outsource the service.

A Southern Primary Health Organisation senior manager who was the sole director and shareholder of the company which operated a now-defunct Oamaru medical practice has rejected a call from a creditor to stand down.

When Kate Walker started practising, there were just a handful of women lawyers in Dunedin.

Discipline was strict, but children at Glendining Home still ''got away with a lot'', former resident Gavin Greenfield recalled at the home's centenary on Saturday.

About 60 people linked hands to take part in the national Hands Across the Sand day of action against deep sea oil drilling at Dunedin's St Clair Beach on Saturday.

Dunedin Hospital's ninth operating theatre is expected to increase available surgical time by 40 hours a week, the Southern District Health Board says.

Dunedin Hospital is performing colonoscopies on Saturdays to clear the backlog.

An internal report's recommendation to increase chartered flights between Invercargill and Dunedin to cope with increased travel demands was declined because of cost, the Southern District Health Board says.

Despite health getting the biggest funding increase in yesterday's Budget, critics warn some important areas are not receiving enough money.