The changing relationship between hospitals and general practice helped convince Branko Sijnja to stand again for Southern District Health Board election.
Southern emergency department data shows some patients are less likely to be seen by a doctor on time than those with less need.
Alcohol poisoning rates in the South have risen an average of 10% annually for the past five years, a new Southern District Health Board alcohol report says.
A High Court decision clears the last hurdle to banning smoking in mental health wards, and a Southern Dstrict Health Board member is wrong to suggest otherwise, mental health consultant Graham Roper says.
A care pathway for dying patients to be phased out in England is widely used in New Zealand.
Flu-like illness is less than half as prevalent as it was this time last year, and the Southern region is even lower than the average.
Southern District Health Board staff plan to ban smoking in mental health wards, upsetting a board member who says it needs to be approved by the board first.
The aged care sector awaits the outcome of a test case that could declare carer wages discriminatory. Health reporter Eileen Goodwin looks at the issue.
For workers who believe they are underpaid and undervalued, Dunedin carers Deirdre Sanderson and Ange Wilson have a remarkably generous attitude towards their employer.
A kaka bred at the Dunedin Botanic Garden has made her way home, and appears to be taking up residence.
Mosgiel man Mike Beath, whose wife has multiple sclerosis, says he is sick of leaving messages with her home support provider in Auckland and Australia and not getting an adequate response.
Health data from New Zealand preschoolers will be used to try to establish whether fluoride impedes child development.
The Southern District Health Board seems to be hiding something because it has ignored a request to release documents relating to the Otago Fertility Service outsourcing proposal, the senior doctors' union says.
The Southern District Health Board beat its elective procedure patient discharge target, but, did large volumes of one procedure disguise the true picture?
Dunedin health staff are starting the culture change Invercargill went through several years ago, Southern District Health Board deputy chairman Paul Menzies says.
Southern health staff will be encouraged to spread their holidays over the year, rather than concentrating them in peak summer.
A newly funded drug does not make acute coronary syndrome patients feel better, but it improves their safety, Dunedin Hospital cardiologist Gerard Wilkins says.
The Stroke Foundation of New Zealand quietly made changes this week.
It is difficult for a health board to provide its own fertility service, given the challenge of keeping pace with technology, Fertility Associates chief executive Alex Price says.
Dorothy Andrews, of Mosgiel, works on the woollen shawl she plans to send to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for the royal baby, due this month.