Increases in both urgent surgery and emergency department patient numbers prompted concern at a Southern District Health Board hospital committee meeting in Dunedin yesterday.
Health Minister Tony Ryall says public investment in health services in Dunedin is ''quite good'', but the Government is not getting enough credit.
Breakthrough University of Otago research could enable advances in treating infertility and the development of new contraceptive drugs, Dunedin neuroscientist and lead researcher Allan Herbison says.
Demotions for Dunedin's two electorate MPs in Labour leader David Cunliffe's new line-up, unveiled yesterday, are signs of the city's loss of influence in an otherwise cautious reshuffle, University of Otago politics lecturer Dr Bryce Edwards says.
Re-establishing the High St cable car line will show off Otago engineering, rejuvenate the Exchange, and encourage development south of the Octagon, Dunedin Cable Car Group chairman Phil Cole told a public meeting in Dunedin yesterday.
Heritage restoration seems to have a renewed energy in Dunedin, heritage historian and Dunedin Gasworks Museum patron Sir Neil Cossons says.
New Ombudsman Prof Ron Paterson has sent a powerful message to Southern District Health Board, in stating it should consult on controversial decisions such as starting a termination service, Southlanders for Life spokesman Fr Vaughan Leslie said yesterday.
Health boards have little influence over the health of the population, and representatives who think they will change things fail to realise the Minister of Health is in charge, Southern District Health Board candidate Richard Thomson told a forum in Dunedin yesterday.
Greta Mutch (8) prepares to farewell her ''anti-bullying tree'' in Opoho Park, Dunedin.
The Ministry of Health says it needs to hear from Ashburn Clinic, in Dunedin, before forming a view of the private psychiatric hospital's situation.
Amity Health Centre practice nurse Patsy Bennett (65) celebrates her last day of work yesterday after 46 years nursing, the last 22 years at the medical practice in Highgate, Dunedin.
The legacy of the landmark Cartwright Inquiry will be examined at an event marking its 25th anniversary in Auckland tomorrow.
A monthly financial loss sustained by free Dunedin GP clinic Servants Health Centre could be addressed by a funding boost announced yesterday.
University of Otago researchers trying to pinpoint people who will develop Alzheimer's disease have been given a $50,000 bequest by Alzheimer's Society Otago .
Ashburn Clinic, in Dunedin, is relying on the Ministry of Health to save the financially strapped private psychiatric hospital.
The more regional breast-screening schemes fall into private hands, the harder it gets to maintain a world-class screening programme, University of Otago cancer screening authority Associate Prof Brian Cox says.
Health reporter Eileen Goodwin looks at some of the issues facing candidates in the Southern District Health Board election.
The interim clinical director of Southern District Health Board's breast-screening service says staff were ''surprised and distressed'' by news the board may opt out of the service.
Lachie McLachlan says he does not have words to describe what his double lung transplant means to him.
Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler, on a visit to Dunedin yesterday, chats to Otago Chamber of Commerce president Peter McIntyre (right) and Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull (left).
