Free GP visits, scrips surprise
Free GP visits and prescriptions for children under 13 was the surprise feature of the health announcements in yesterday's Budget.
Free GP visits and prescriptions for children under 13 was the surprise feature of the health announcements in yesterday's Budget.
More interest in alternative remedies is likely to feature in a post-antibiotic world, a University of Otago infectious diseases authority says.
Details have emerged from a nurses' meeting about concerns a lack of staff in Dunedin Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (Nicu) could be harming patients.
Concern health heads are ''robbing Nurse Betty to pay Dr Ropata'' by skimping on nurse budgets has been raised by a Southern District Health Board member.
The Southern District Health Board will not release preliminary findings about what caused this week's hospital IT crash for several weeks.
South Link Health (SLH) says it found out through reading the Otago Daily Times that the Southern District Health Board had called in a forensic accountant over what the Dunedin-based indep
An audit of 767 people who may have had delayed or declined access to surveillance colonoscopy in Otago between 2007 and 2011 found eight had died of bowel cancer or its complications.