New Zealand's rapidly ageing population must be considered when new hospitals, such as the coming $1.2 billion new Dunedin Hospital, are built, a newly released report on New Zealand's health...
The South Island neurosurgery service has never functioned in a way for services to be properly offered in both Christchurch and Dunedin, a scathing report says.
The Omarama parents of a West Australian flight instructor who fell unconscious mid-flight, forcing his inexperienced pupil to land the plane, say they are hugely relieved the drama ended without...
The soon-to-be-elected Southern District Health Board will work under the scrutiny of a crown monitor, Health Minister David Clark said in a surprise announcement yesterday.
The Government will establish a Cancer Control Agency and give a $60 million boost to Pharmac, to be spent predominantly on cancer drugs, as part of its Cancer Action plan.
A group of Dunedin lawyers and professionals have offered their services free of charge to help people caught out in the collapse of Dunedin financial adviser Barry Kloogh's businesses.
The slim hopes of people with money invested with suspended Dunedin financial adviser Barry Kloogh have been shredded as his two companies were placed in liquidation yesterday
The Southern District Health Board will prioritise the care of around 60 patients who make a combined 1600-plus visits to hospital emergency departments each year.
Long-serving New Zealand Nurses Organisation organiser Lorraine Lobb is retiring from her role representing the region’s nurses. She talks to health reporter Mike Houlahan...
It says a lot about the perception of the standard of political debate that it comes as something of a surprise when political opponents respectfully disagree about something ... let alone when...
Dunedin Hospital's beleaguered gastroenterology department needs greater resources to prevent more people having adverse outcomes after being denied colonoscopies, GPs say.
The Southern District Health Board may have to postpone X-rays and scans next Monday, after medical imaging technologists gave notice of strike action.