A pharmacist in Palmerston says that he signed a new contract - which he believes will spell trouble for the sector - because he was bullied into accepting its conditions by the Southern District Health Board.
The Southern District Health Board is seeking staff feedback on a proposal to end eight general managers' jobs and appoint five new managers to be known as "patient services division leaders".
Otago and Southland recorded the third-highest rate of flu-like illness presentations in New Zealand last week, an ESR flu update shows.
Thirty-one gastric bypass operations were performed in the Southern District Health Board area in 2011-12, thanks to special funding, Southland Hospital bariatric surgeon Mark Smith says.
The Southern District Health Board has appointed former Southland chief medical officer David Tulloch as chief medical officer (CMO) for the region.
That DHBs are "punished" for providing too many operations is a "perversity", the head of the senior doctors' union says.
A new position statement on alcohol failed to include education as a solution to alcohol abuse, Southern District Health Board member Kaye Crowther says.
Endorsed by the DHB yesterday, the position statement was created in partnership with all South Island DHBs.
The Southern District Health Board is vowing to clamp down on the number of elective surgical procedures carried out to try to avoid further cost overruns.
The public has a right to know that Southern District Health Board is shifting $3.9 million of liabilities from the last financial year in to the future, hospital advisory committee member Richard Thomson says.
A Dunedin man is urging urology patients to consider seeking medical attention in Christchurch while Dunedin has just one permanent urologist.
The Southern District Health Board's breast-screening programme is still receiving external support, a report to the hospital advisory committee meeting today says.
Concerns an unregulated "second-class" carer workforce is being created by the burgeoning "individualised funding" (IF) scheme for the disabled are revealed in an evaluation commissioned by the Ministry of Health.
Primary health organisations (PHOs) will probably remain outside freedom of information law because they are not statutory bodies, the lead commissioner of a major review of the Official Information Act (OIA) says.
A Southern District Health Board committee today will discuss, behind closed doors, changes to home-based support for older people.
Dunedin Hospital's emergency department finished the financial year with its best monthly result for treating patients.
Dunedin North MP David Clark is satisfied no significant changes to production are planned at Cadbury Confectionery Dunedin.
A Baptist Church group is considering what to do with its former rest-home in Mornington.
No official feedback has been received on the free after-hours medical care for children under 6, but it seems to be working in participating GP practices, Southern Primary Health Organisation chief executive Ian Macara says.
Partly by adding its sums differently, the Southern District Health Board has wiped up to $2.8 million off its deficit.
A "public education programme" to "celebrate DHB success" is part of efforts to improve communication, a Southern District Health Board internal strategy document reveals.
