Southern District Health Board managers face job losses as
the board gears up for the next round of restructuring,
senior doctors' union representative Dr John Chambers 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
