The highest-paid employee at Southern District Health Board
received between $650,000 and $660,000 in the last financial
year, the board's 2012 annual report shows.
Care workers at Presbyterian Support Otago (PSO) say a
decision to dump the organisation as a provider for
home-based care services has left them and their clients
facing an uncertain future.
It feels as if the Southern District Health Board is going
''around in circles'' trying to find a solution to
after-hours medical care, a board member says.
The Southern District Health Board now has an agreed 2012-13
budget which contains ''waste reduction and savings
initiatives'', a report to the board says.
The Southern District Health Board has gone back to the
drawing board again on plans to provide long-awaited
additional endoscopy facilities at Dunedin Hospital.
The Southern District Health Board (SDHB) was warned it could
be ''losing sight of the bigger picture'' in its dealings
with a patient whose biopsy specimen had been mixed up with
another.
