ODHB

Industrial action by medical radiation technologists across the country looks set to continue and will include Easter in some places, including Southland.

Thirty-four elderly people in Otago and Southland have appealed health board housework cuts, according to Otago and Southland district health boards regional planning and funding manager David Chrisp.

Dunedin pharmacist Don Anderson says he has signed a contract with the Otago District Health Board, but did so under duress.

Balclutha general practitioner and Otago District Health Board member Dr Branko Sijnja has been appointed director of the University of Otago's Rural Medical Immersion Programme.

Otago District Health Board managers will meet home support providers today to update them on plans to review housework support for some elderly.

District health boards are paying to dispose of wheelbarrow-loads of over-prescribed medicines people do not want, Peter Barron says.

There would be no lavish end-of-an-era function for the cash-strapped Otago District Health Board, chairman Errol Millar said yesterday.

The Southland and Otago district health boards say they are satisfied with Telecom's assurance its beleaguered XT network will be fixed.

About 50 patients have had Dunedin Hospital radiology or mammography appointments rescheduled as a result of next week's planned industrial action by medical radiation technologists.

The Otago and Southland district health boards spend less for day programme activities for the elderly than is spent in other parts of the country.