Mike Houlahan

Otago rural hospitals are bracing for possible industrial action next year, as the implications of the Government's much heralded nursing safe staffing accord begin to affect them.

The decline and fall of Dunedin South MP Clare Curran was the southern political story of 2018 - but might her return to grace be a story for 2019?

An independent engineering assessment is being carried out to determine what needs to be done to open Dunedin Hospital's new $14.8million critical care facility.

A sudden drop in people seeing specialists and receiving elective surgery in the recommended time frame has the Southern District Health Board searching for causes and a solution.

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.