Mike Houlahan

A turbulent six years in the southern health system’s hottest seat is about to come to an end, after Southern District Health Board chief executive Chris Fleming announced his resignation yesterday.

The Southern District Health Board ceases to exist in three months, but it has little idea what will replace it.

Waiting lists for southern gynaecology patients are steadily climbing, but there is better news for those awaiting an ophthalmology appointment.

Dozens of Covid-19 cases have been detected in southern aged residential care facilities in the past five weeks, newly released data reveals.

Few will forget the events of September 4, 2010, and no-one will forget February 22 the following year: the Canterbury earthquakes.

The South recorded almost 10% of the country’s reported new Covid-19 cases yesterday.

The Southern District Health Board is at loggerheads with Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency over the future of the Dunedin one-way traffic system.

Four cardiology patients in the same room in Dunedin Hospital have all contracted Covid-19 after one of them was visited by someone carrying the virus.

Ambitious plans for the new Dunedin Hospital to be the country’s first "digital hospital" took a step forward yesterday after four firms were named to design the necessary infrastructure.

Parliament's health select committee has raised concerns about management controls at the Southern District Health Board, and in particular its financial and IT systems.

More southern children are being caught in the Omicron wave, as fresh spikes surface around Southland.

Dunedin eye surgeon Deepak Gupta has twice more fallen foul of the Ministry of Health for seeing patients despite being unvaccinated.

Southern hospitals will eventually start operating on Saturdays to catch up with the backlog of procedures caused by Covid-19.

Invercargill is now officially the South’s Covid-19 hot spot.

The Otago Daily Times is highlighting some of the many dedicated people on the frontlines of the fight against Covid-19. Today, health reporter Mike Houlahan talks to Birgitte McLean, clinical lead...