The senior doctors' union is unimpressed with what it calls a "petty point-scoring" open letter Southern District Health Board management has sent Dunedin Hospital emergency department staff.
Three of four doctors in the spotlight this week for performing high numbers of assessments for ACC are based in Otago.
The future shape of GP practices will be quite different as young doctors are less willing to go the "extra mile" than their older colleagues, the Southern District Health Board has been told.
Good patient care is being achieved through the "largely invisible" and unsustainable efforts of staff, a report about Southern District Health Board work practices says.
The "personal side" of high-profile defence lawyer Greg King was humane, sensitive, and generous, murder victim Sophie Elliott's mother, Lesley, said yesterday.
Health Minister Tony Ryall has been accused of pressuring the Southern District Health Board to discipline a Dunedin medical specialist for speaking to the media.
The Southern District Health Board wants to cut the numbers of patients sitting on "active review" - those with an expectation, but no certainty, of receiving surgery.
Lingering resentment in the South over the American Civil War hinders important national initiatives, such as healthcare reform, in the United States, political scientist Prof Pauline Rosenau, of the University of Texas, told an audience in Dunedin yesterday.
A near doubling of patient complaints to the Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC) is not a "shock horror story", Southern District Health Board deputy chairman Paul Menzies says.
Managers were "quite ambitious" in their initial predictions of gains from a $2.7 million observation unit in Dunedin Hospital's emergency department (ED), and these have been revised down, a Southern District Health Board committee heard yesterday.
Dunedin Hospital's new $2.7 million emergency department (ED) observation unit appears to be making a dent in patient waiting times, but management says it is too early to measure the benefits.
The Southern District Health Board is saving money by not outsourcing elective surgery to the private sector, a report to tomorrow's board meeting shows.
The Southern District Health Board is hiring a chief financial officer, two years after removing the position.
Gay marriage has strengthened Canadian society, an Anglican Church leader visiting Dunedin's St Paul's Cathedral said yesterday.
Otago has recorded the country's second highest rate of Caesarean section births, a Ministry of Health report shows.
A British investigation into breast-screening which found a concerning rate of over-diagnosis indicates about 180 women will be treated unnecessarily each year in New Zealand, University of Otago cancer-screening authority Associate Prof Brian Cox says.
While "disappointed" at posting a $116,000 cash loss in 2011-12, Ashburn Clinic in Dunedin is continuing to weather difficult financial times, its business director says.
The number of patients waiting for skin-cancer surgery at Dunedin Hospital increased 64% in the past year, while Southland Hospital halved its waiting list for the procedure, figures show.
Any fallout from switching diabetics patients to new glucose-testing equipment "hasn't really hit yet", several weeks after the phasing-in period started, Diabetes Otago office manager Noeline Wedlock says.
Dunedin Hospital is leading a national electronic prescribing project for hospitals, but it is progressing at a snail's pace because of bureaucratic hold-ups.
