Mike Houlahan

The Southern District Health Board has apologised after doctors failed to diagnose a woman had cancer, despite her coming to hospital with bleeding three times in two and a-half months.

SOUTHERN lung cancer patients rarely receive vital tests and scans in a timely manner, newly published research suggests.

After five turbulent years as chief executive of the Southern District Health Board, Chris Fleming is ready for a complete change of pace, he tells health reporter Mike Houlahan.

Dunedin's very own David, Commerce Minister Dr David Clark, does not much look like the fighting type.

Woodsmoke may be causing or exacerbating acute respiratory conditions, a study which examined an unnamed Central Otago town suggests.

Failure by the Southern District Health Board to properly accredit a vaccination provider which administered potentially ineffective Covid-19 vaccinations might have been a blessing in disguise.

Surgery cancellations might end up becoming a regular occurrence at Dunedin Hospital this winter, the Southern District Health Board has warned.

The accreditation for a vaccine provider at the centre of Covid-19 vaccine cold chain failure had lapsed, a report on the incident says.

Perhaps in keeping with its eventful history, the Southern District Health Board’s last meeting did not end smoothly.

The Southern District Health Board yesterday signed off on a clinical needs assessment for Southland, the next step towards a planned redevelopment of Southland Hospital.

Dunedin Hospital was in crisis last night after all planned surgery yesterday was cancelled due to severe staff shortages.

The Southern District Health Board cancelled all planned surgeries at Dunedin Hospital this morning due to severe staff shortages.

Saturday surgery at Dunedin Hospital to reduce acute orthopaedic waiting lists is a step closer.

Eight years after it proposed building operations centres in its main hospitals, the Southern District Health Board is poised to finally make progress on those plans.

Dunedin Hospital is opening to visitors again after Covid-19 outbreaks in multiple wards were contained.

The new Dunedin Hospital is a "one in a generation" construction project, and its new programme director Tony Lloyd cannot believe his luck that he will get to work on it.

More than a third of southern aged residential care residents and staff have contracted Covid-19, despite strenuous efforts to keep the pandemic disease out of rest-homes and hospital facilities.

A new report shows the magnitude of the ongoing impact Covid-19 and staff shortages are having on surgical services in the South.

The Southern District Health Board has reduced its ophthalmology waiting list by about two-thirds so far this year.