Mike Houlahan

Every southern household should have a plan in case someone living there contracts Covid-19, the Southern District Health Board says.

Covid-19 is coming to a town near you has been the sad theme of this week, and it would be fair to say Southern MPs are not best pleased about that.

The Southern District Health Board is evaluating expressions of interest in building a parking building on the new Dunedin Hospital site.

The Ministry of Health has rejected a request that it should have a hard upper limit on how much noise it can make preparing the foundations for the new Dunedin Hospital.

The August Alert Level 4 lockdown caused the Southern District Health Board to cancel or postpone 3400 appointments and operations.

Planners responsible for the new Dunedin hospital have reconsidered, and again rejected, regularly using two pile-driving rigs at the same time.

Wednesday was Dunedin Labour MP Dr David Clark’s day of jubilee, as the Data and Statistics Bill finally made it to the top of the order paper.

The South’s two largest Covid-19 vaccination centres are to remain open for the foreseeable future.

Contingency funding for the $1.47billion new Dunedin Hospital project has already been drawn upon, to fund changes to the design for pandemic planning.

Little progress has been made on securing the future of the Dunedin Physio Pool, as the trust running the pool and the Southern District Health Board continue to negotiate the financial issues...

The NZ Transport Agency is concerned the position of the overbridges proposed to link the new Dunedin Hospital buildings could cause safety issues.

Staff and services on the second floor of Dunedin Hospital’s clinical services building are slowly being moved elsewhere to make way for a new medical assessment unit.

Wellsouth chairman Doug Hill has made an ardent plea for pay parity between primary care and hospital nurses.

Ward 11 at Wakari Hospital will not be closed without plans in place for appropriate care for its residents, the Southern District Health Board says.

Covid-19 is once more in southern waters.