The Southern District Health Board is working with the Community Health Council to try to improve how it apologises to patients and families affected by adverse events.
Eighteen months after being slated in a commissioner report, the SDHB's ophthalmology service is showing "enormous improvement'', the organisation says.
A damning report of Southern District Health Board urology services has national as well as regional implications, the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand says.
Dunedin man Joshua Perry's petition to improve disabled people's access to housing modifications has received partial support from the Ministry of Health, but it has come out against one of his main proposals.
Reports of discourteous treatment of patients and continuing delays in tests and treatments are concerning, the Southern District Health Board's urology service clinical leader says.
Stephen Hoffman wanted to drive a truck until he was 70, but cancer treatment delays mean the 64-year-old now has a lower life-expectancy, and will never work again.
The southern region may be over the worst of its dose of measles - no more cases of the highly infectious disease have been reported in the past seven days.
One third of patients were not treated within acceptable time frames as the Southern District Health Board reacted too slowly to a looming urology crisis, an investigation has found.
Managers at the Southern District Health Board were aware for around three years of issues with its urology service causing long delays in treatment, a Health and Disability Commissioner report has found.
The professional body for authorised financial advisers is reviewing its training courses and intends to place greater emphasis on ethics following the collapse of Dunedin adviser Barry Kloogh's...
A few years ago, Parliament reviewed the rules concerning member's Bills, partly in the hope of allowing more MPs a chance of getting their proposed law reforms considered.
Dunedin's neurosurgery service staffing levels, which an independent report has called "inherently unsafe", are unlikely to improve this year, the Southern District Health Board says.
The southern region community health council will continue to play an important role as the region's health system returns to being overseen by an elected board, the council's chairwoman says.
The Financial Markets Authority should do more to help people caught up in the multimillion-dollar collapse of Dunedin financial adviser Barry Kloogh's companies, lawyers acting for a group of...
Lawyers acting pro bono for people who lost their savings in the collapse of Dunedin financial adviser Barry Kloogh's businesses want the Government to further tighten regulations governing financial advisers.
Crown workplace safety agency WorkSafe will scrutinise health and safety practices at Wakari Hospital after being notified of an issue at the hospital last month.