Mike Houlahan

The Southern District Health Board has asked the Government for a bailout after running up its second successive $21 million-plus budget deficit.

Wellsouth Primary Health Network has a new chief executive officer.

Dunedin hepatitis C campaigner Hazel Heal has received an early Christmas present: news Government drug-buying agency Pharmac will make medicine available to all people with the liver disease.

The Southern District Health Board has racked up its second successive $21 million-plus deficit - $7 million more than forecast.

The Southern District Health Board has employed 16 new nurses as it moves towards meeting safe staffing requirements.

University of Otago vice-chancellor Harlene Hayne has sat through dozens of graduation ceremonies, playing her part of a special day for thousands of families.

Police crash investigators are at the scene of a car crash near Mosgiel this afternoon.

Dunedin's George St was a sea of people on Saturday morning as family, friends and supporters joined Otago University graduands as they paraded towards the 1pm graduation ceremony.

It will be at least 20 years before New Zealand's mental health workforce can cope with current demand, let alone deal with new patients, the editorial in the latest issue of the New Zealand...

The government's ambition that tobacco use be a thing of the past by 2025 looks to be going up in smoke, two new reports suggest.

Until recently, Brockville woman Bev Collis would have been in hospital for a week or more following a fall which dislocated her shoulder.

A research fund would be a fitting legacy of the centenary of the 1918 flu pandemic, designed to help prevent similar disasters befalling New Zealand, two University of Otago academics from the...

The accident compensation system should be overhauled so it covers illness, an international report in to New Zealand's mental health system says.

Resources and facilities for treating juvenile eating disorders are limited and should be improved, the Eating Disorders Association says.

A petition challenging the Southern District Health Board's decision to downgrade the status of the Lumsden Maternity Centre has been put on hold.

The Southern District Health Board has been rated the lowest of any government agency yet assessed in the Treasury's investor confidence ratings.

Patient complaints to the SDHB have jumped sharply in the past year, up more than 20%.

The Southern District Health Board has launched a new "Speak Up'' programme, to allow staff to raise workplace concerns or issues with a peer.

The Southern District Health Board could outsource more operations as part of plans to fast-track the first stage of the new Dunedin Hospital.