The Southern District Health Board has said it would charge
more than $2200 to look through emails and letters between it
and six home-based support providers in order to decide
whether they could be released.
The Southern District Health Board is still drawing up a plan
to fit in about 220 extra Dunedin Hospital colonoscopies
without creating lengthy waiting times.
Many of the more than 13,000 people who signed a petition
calling for the Southern District Health Board to reinstate
two dropped home-care support providers did not understand
what they were signing, board member Neville Cook says.
People attending meetings seeking answers from the Southern
District Health Board about why it dumped Presbyterian
Support Otago (PSO) and others in a shake-up of home-based
services ''left happy'', the board heard yesterday.
While the Southern District Health Board's $42 million
cost-savings plan has ''merit'', the savings are not enough,
says the Treasury in a report on the board's financial state.
The Southern District Health Board is again at risk of
exceeding its approved deficit, and could end the year about
$13.7 million in the red unless changes are made, board
members heard yesterday.
Patients are getting more nursing care each day than they
have been assessed as needing, the Southern District Health
Board hospital advisory committee heard yesterday.
The number of patients consigned to ''active review'' status
for surgery sparked concern at Southern District Health
Board's hospital advisory committee meeting in Invercargill
yesterday.
