healthcare

Two cardiology experts giving a fundraising talk in Lake Hawea tomorrow night admit to feeling a little nervous about their prospective audience.

Improvements to the way patients' allergies are recorded will flow from the planned extension of the hospital electronic prescribing system piloted at Dunedin Hospital, hospital information technology clinical leader Dr Andrew Bowers says.

Demand for Dunedin Urgent Doctors and Accident Centre has been slightly up on previous years, boosted by international visitors in the city, practice manager Martin Chamberlain says.

Links between the women's health departments at the Dunedin and Southland hospitals are to be strengthened, as Southland has rejuvenated a rural hospital obstetrics and gynaecology training programme.

A surgeon performed an operation to remove the gall bladder of a woman, despite having taken the organ out of her 13 years earlier.

A surgeon performed an operation to remove the gall bladder of a woman, despite having taken the organ out of her 13 years earlier.

The chairman of the National Health Board panel invited to fix the Wakatipu health crisis says he took the job on the understanding there was no preconceived outcome.

The Southern Primary Health Organisation has written to Otago and Southland GPs to allay concerns about its proposed clinical programme.

The Southern DHB's proposal for a "one-stop shop" health centre in Queenstown was attacked for being a "woolly concept", while the Government was blasted for failing to cater for the resort's rising population and almost two million visitors a year in its health funding.

New Zealand Nurses Organisation members are not happy about acting as emergency department gatekeepers at Lakes District Hospital in Frankton.