Mike Houlahan

Arts scene doyenne Barbara Brinsley is concerned the true value of the Dunedin Hospital art collection is being overlooked, both in the current hospital and the future one.

The South returned to Covid-19 Alert Level 2 this week, and with it life for our MPs returned to something a little closer to normality.

The combination of a second Covid-19 Level 4 lockdown and planned strike action by nurses make it inevitable the Southern District Health Board will have to outsource more operations, a report to...

The Southern District Health Board, like 14 other DHBs, has failed to meet the deadline to implement safe staffing requirements.

More than 90% of Dunedin people were not regularly using the Covid-19 scanning app before the latest Alert Level 4 lockdown.

Ward 11 at Wakari Hospital is to close, as the Southern District Health Board begins to implement the recommendations of its review of mental health and addiction services.

Southerners trying to kick addictions to hard drugs are having to wait two years to gain treatment.

Help is on the way for Dunedin Hospital’s embattled emergency department.

Cost-cutting measures taken 13 years ago meant Southland Hospital was woefully ill-equipped to handle the arrival of two Covid-19 positive sailors.

The Southern District Health Board has finally made some progress in reducing record waiting lists for radiation oncology treatment, but it fears the Covid-19 lockdown will stall that momentum.

The new Dunedin Hospital construction project will add a maximum of $100 million a year to the city’s economy, a newly released document predicts.

There is no set formula for deciding which of our local MPs feature in Southern Say each week.

Fast-track consent documents for the new Dunedin Hospital have been lodged and are being considered by an independent panel.

Plans for resuscitating the second stage of Dunedin Hospital’s problem-plagued new intensive care unit are close to being completed.

Southern health organisations are sending reinforcements north to help Auckland colleagues battling to contain the outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19.

The Government is seeking to revamp how passengers and crew arriving in New Zealand are transferred to managed isolation and quarantine.