Mike Houlahan

The Southern District Health Board needs to recruit more disabled people to ensure they are represented at all levels of the organisation, a report says.

Act New Zealand brings its campaign bus to town this week, although whether it will transport the public is an as yet unanswered question.

A chronic shortage of aged residential care nurses in the South is starting to affect the quality of care given to the elderly.

Southern public health staff will take an elimination-first approach should Covid-19 emerge in Otago and Southland over Christmas.

A Dunedin story more than 20 years in the making is one small step closer to being told.

Cancer patients face an anxious few weeks after medical physicists, who support the radiation treatment patients need, confirmed three days of strikes and other ongoing industrial action.

Southern child health services do not expect to be overwhelmed once the more infectious Delta strain of Covid-19 arrives in Otago and Southland.

Dedicated Covid-19 testing centres are being set up in Dunedin and Invercargill as southern health providers prepare for the reappearance of the pandemic disease.

Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean had a busy Wednesday evening, chairing the House of Representatives as it debated Covid-19 taxation legislation.

New Zealand needs to build and maintain a strong public health system to guard against threats such as Covid-19, Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall says.

A group of Otago academics has called for the designation "Asian" to be removed from health statistics as it fails to present a true impression of people’s wellbeing.

Traffic management around the construction site of the future Dunedin Hospital should be carefully planned before work begins, the NZ Transport Agency has urged.

The Southern region health system has lost seven doctors and 11 nurses who have either resigned or had their employment terminated for refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

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.