Mike Houlahan

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Hospital by default for D6 patients?

Safe areas became an option for health providers under law in March this year. Photo: ODT files

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Hospital by default for D6 patients?

High-needs psychogeriatric dementia patients could end up in public hospital care due to a lack of anywhere else for them to go, aged residential care facility operators fear.

Possible increase of cases in southern cities

Possible increase of cases in southern cities

Covid-19 cases have increased in the South’s cities but remained steady in the regions, newly released data suggests.

Dementia service closure ‘canary in coalmine’

The latest concept design image for the new Dunedin Hospital buildings, supplied by the...

Dementia service closure ‘canary in coalmine’

The dementia care crisis precipitated by the looming closure of Ross Home’s psychogeriatric service shows that Dunedin's new hospital should be bigger, not facing the possibility of having its beds cut, a local MP says.

A life of long labour

This compelling biography of Jim Anderton is a big book, as befits a subject who liked to talk... a lot.

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Health Care Home not well known but improving care

The team behind Amity Medical Centre, Dunedin's first Health Care Home (from left) practice nurse...

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Health Care Home not well known but improving care

The Health Care Home programme, which southern health officials hoped would revolutionise general practice, is beginning to wind down. Health reporter Mike Houlahan assesses progress so far.

Craig’s first six months; Woodhouse in a huff

Invercargill Labour list MP Liz Craig, working on health and local issues. PHOTO: LAURA SMITH

Craig’s first six months; Woodhouse in a huff

It is now more than six months since Invercargill Labour list MP Liz Craig was elevated to the rank of parliamentary private secretary for health.

Ellis case shows duality of NZ law

University of Otago Maori legal scholar, Professor Jacinta Ruru. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

Ellis case shows duality of NZ law

The Ellis decision has built on earlier cases to confirm tikanga Maori is one of two systems of law in New Zealand, an Otago legal academic says.

'Huge relief': Ellis’ name cleared of crimes

'Huge relief': Ellis’ name cleared of crimes

One of NZ’s most controversial criminal cases was settled yesterday after the Supreme Court quashed the historic sexual offending convictions against the late former creche worker Peter Ellis.

Pay hike a start to entice GPs

Pay hike a start to entice GPs

A funding boost to train more general practitioners is a good first step but more needs to be done to attract and retain GPs in Otago and Southland, clinicians say.

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Southern cancer treatment target falls short

Onocology Department at the Dunedin Hospital. PHOTO: ODT FILES

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Southern cancer treatment target falls short

A quarter of southern cancer patients are missing the faster cancer treatment target to start treatment within two months.

Treasures help map life in Dunedin

Principal archaeologist Naomi Woods examines an 1870s soda bottle found under the site of the new...

Treasures help map life in Dunedin

The construction of New Zealand’s most modern hospital is giving an insight into Dunedin’s past.

Labour likely to make women a key issue

It may be ascribing too much to a speech late in the general debate a year out from polling day, but on Wednesday Taieri Labour MP Ingrid Leary might have revealed the site of one of the...

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‘Story’ of site, land at centre of hospital design

The outpatient building, viewed from the corner of
Castle and St Andrew Sts. IMAGE: SUPPLIED

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‘Story’ of site, land at centre of hospital design

The outpatient building in the new Dunedin hospital will reference the site’s history and landscape, principal architect Darryl Haines says.

Neurosurgeon still in limbo after court decision

A qualified neurosurgeon could be lost to the South, after Lucas Rakasz failed to convince a district court judge to immediately accredit him to work in this country.

Rising levels of virus detected in wastewater

Rising levels of virus detected in wastewater

New officially-reported regional southern Covid-19 cases have remained relatively steady in the past fortnight, but health officials are watching rising levels of the disease showing up in...

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Port doing well, despite challenges

The Port Otago pilot launch Aramoana follows container ship Oluf Maersk to retrieve the pilot off...

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Port doing well, despite challenges

Port Otago says its books are in excellent shape and poised to look even better after cruise ships return to the province.

Mental health respite centre opens

Mental health respite centre opens

A Dunedin mental health respite centre which opened yesterday is the first in a series of initiatives planned to improve southern mental health services.

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Hospital architect looks to the future

Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand Southern programme director Bridget Dickson and new Dunedin...

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Hospital architect looks to the future

When he looks across Cumberland St, sometimes new Dunedin hospital architect Darryl Haines can only see a series of metal piles ... but at other times he can envisage what the building he has drawn will look like in reality.

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ICU still a year from completion

A bed space in the completed stage 1 of the ICU upgrade. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN

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ICU still a year from completion

Work is under way remedying ventilation issues which have dogged the new intensive care unit at Dunedin Hospital, but it will be at least another year before the much-delayed ward is open for patients.

Clearing the air: ICU a mammoth undertaking

The incomplete nurses station in stage 2 of the Dunedin Hospital intensive care unit upgrade, a...

Clearing the air: ICU a mammoth undertaking

Three years after it was meant to open to receive patients, the second stage of the new intensive care unit at Dunedin Hospital remains a building site.

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