Mike Houlahan

The Southern District Health Board, dealing with an increased amount misinformation and rumour, took the unusual step of putting out a statement to say there are no Covid-19 cases in the region.

Wakari Hospital’s Ward 10a is a "pressure cooker" trying to care for people who would be better off elsewhere, a mental health professional says.

Wakari Hospital’s ward 10A fails to meet the needs of the community, the chief ombudsman has said in a searing review of the mental health facility.

A $7 million financial boost for Otago maternity services will fund primary birthing units in Clyde and Wanaka.

There is hope after all that Dunedin Hospital might finally be about to hire a new neurosurgeon.

Southern health planners are "nervously confident" the region is prepared for an outbreak of the Covid-19 Omicron variant.

The Southern District Health Board’s ophthalmology service is nearing crisis point, and clinicians are scrambling to try to avoid waiting lists becoming so long that patients suffer irreversible...

A million-dollar accounting mistake has made the Southern District Health Board’s financial performance worse than expected.

Otago and Southland can expect more than 18,000 cases of Covid-19 this year, 70% of which are likely to occur in March and April, new modelling suggests.

Dunedin Hospital’s emergency department is a long way from meeting its performance targets despite WorkSafe New Zealand lifting a ‘‘please improve’’ order, clinicians say.

More than 800 Southland women have been languishing on their hospital’s obstetrics and gynaecology waiting list, 20 of them for more than a year.

While the country has been enjoying a Delta-tinged golden summer, prior to the arrival of our Omicron autumn of discontent, various MPs have been hard at work trying to improve the health system.

Queenstown has had its first brush with the Omicron variant of Covid-19.

Queenstown has had its first brush with the Omicron variant of Covid-19.

About 15 people are in isolation in Otago and Southland after being identified as possible close contacts of a Covid-19 case.

About 15 people are in isolation in Otago and Southland after being identified as possible close contacts of a Covid-19 case.

The Southern District Health Board faces the possibility of prosecution after a scathing inquiry by the health and disability commissioner into the death of a woman with a serious heart condition...

Any cold-like symptoms have the potential to be the Omicron variant of Covid-19, but a sore throat or runny nose are two to particularly look out for, a South Island virologist says.

Another senior manager has resigned from the Southern District Health Board.