The number of district court cases waiting to go to trial has
increased by more than 40% because of the abolition of
depositions, the New Zealand Law Society claims.
Six-year-old Brayden Warnock-Hannon, who was badly burned in
an accident last year, is just one of thousands of patients
to benefit from the addition of a plastic surgery service at
Dunedin Hospital.
A strong turnout at a public forum about the future
management of Hawksbury Lagoon has organisers hopeful about
organising similar events in the future.
Daytime services at the Dunedin Urgent Doctors and Accident
Centre are being "streamlined" as the centre looks to "align
our GP resource with current demand", Dr Kim Maiai says.
The Dunedin City Council will be asked to consider trialling
daytime closures of the Octagon, after council staff rejected
an idea to close the Octagon for entire weekends, citing
concerns from police and objections from affected businesses.
Promoters of an idea to close the lower Octagon for a trial
period to improve the area's ambience during summer weekends
are disappointed Dunedin City Council staff are recommending
it not go ahead.
A recommendation to turn down a request to introduce a
Dunedin City Council bylaw banning smoking on footpaths
around Dunedin Hospital is disappointing, but not surprising,
hospital managers say.
A new group to support parents with babies in Dunedin
Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit has been established
in Otago and is looking for parents who had premature babies
to join and help others going through the same experience.
