The waiting list for radiation oncology treatment is not just about numbers, it is about people living with anxiety and uncertainty.
The maternity plan which led to the SDHB downgrading service at Lumsden Maternity Centre was based on incorrect catchment data, a midwife academic says.
The SDHB has all but conceded defeat on recruiting an additional neurosurgeon for Dunedin from within New Zealand.
Parliament's health select committee has again deferred a decision on a petition on the future of Lumsden Maternity Centre, debating the matter while at the same time a local woman was giving birth at the facility.
An emergency birth in Lumsden today is the fourth since the town's maternity centre was downgraded in April.
Dunedin North National list MP Michael Woodhouse has been promoted to No 10 in the party rankings and made associate finance spokesman.
A major rail funding package pledges to replace KiwiRail's aged South Island locomotive fleet and 900 flat-top container wagons, but there's no guarantee of future work for Dunedin's Hillside workshop.
Shona MacTavish gave her final performance yesterday.
Dunedin financial adviser Barry Kloogh has had his status as an authorised financial adviser suspended for three months.
A controversial change of epilepsy drug funding could see her and thousands of other people with epilepsy lose their quality of life and livelihoods, a Brighton woman fears.
Dunedin Hospital patients can rest safer, after the introduction of a new early warning system designed to alert doctors and nurses when a person's health is deteriorating.
A steep drop in the number of southern women taking part in the cervical cancer screening programme is "alarming" and must be addressed, a cancer specialist says.
Politics this week offered proof that if at first you do not succeed, you should try, try and try again.
A former Dunedin woman's battle with cancer has sparked an angry exchange in Parliament and an accusation Michael Woodhouse is using the case in a "grubby political manner".
Corinda Taylor knows first-hand the financial pressure suicide bereaved families face.
Southern District Health Board chief allied health, scientific and technical officer Lynda McCutcheon believes she is retiring on a high.
The annual flu season is tracking well below a low rate of the disease, but more New Zealanders are testing positive to the illness than normal.
Ten months ago, the Southern District Health Board finished a review of its maternity services. There has been controversy ever since. Health reporter Mike Houlahan looks...
There are many half-truths and untruths told in politics, the biggest of them all being "I don't pay attention to polls".
Anxious investors who used Dunedin financial adviser Barry Kloogh have expressed frustration at a lack of information about the fate of their money.