A Dunedin programme aimed at lifting young mothers out of poverty through education may close because of lack of funds, Dunedin South MP Clare Curran says.
Twins Gemma and Eliza Ioane would not be here without the blood donation service, their mother, Melissa Ioane, says.
Mid-level health staff will be able to move to modified roles voluntarily as the Southern District Health Board seeks to avoid an unsettling restructuring process.
A decision on whether to outsource the Otago Fertility Service (OFS) has been delayed to investigate concerns about the controversial proposal.
Dunedin Hospital's operating theatres will operate fully for only two days this week because of an ongoing staff shortage.
Health authorities must be ''very watchful'' not to refer children for unnecessary CT scans, as evidence mounts of the potential risk of the radiation dose, Southern District Health Board member Dr Branko Sijnja says.
The Southern District Health Board has been accused of inaccurately presenting the situation faced by the Otago Fertility Service in its bid to outsource the service.
Trista Townsend did not think she could be at risk of breast cancer as a healthy young mother with no significant family history of the disease.
A Southern Primary Health Organisation senior manager who was the sole director and shareholder of the company which operated a now-defunct Oamaru medical practice has rejected a call from a creditor to stand down.
Discipline was strict, but children at Glendining Home still ''got away with a lot'', former resident Gavin Greenfield recalled at the home's centenary on Saturday.
About 60 people linked hands to take part in the national Hands Across the Sand day of action against deep sea oil drilling at Dunedin's St Clair Beach on Saturday.
Presbyterian Support Otago has confirmed it will lose more than 460 staff as a result of being dropped from home-based support work, while it plans further reviews of its corporate structure.
A Year 13 pupil kept in Dunedin Hospital overnight for observation after a swimming excursion mishap near Purakaunui on Friday is expected to be back at Columba College today.
When Kate Walker started practising, there were just a handful of women lawyers in Dunedin.
Dunedin Hospital's ninth operating theatre is expected to increase available surgical time by 40 hours a week, the Southern District Health Board says.
An internal report's recommendation to increase chartered flights between Invercargill and Dunedin to cope with increased travel demands was declined because of cost, the Southern District Health Board says.
Dunedin Hospital is performing colonoscopies on Saturdays to clear the backlog.
Despite health getting the biggest funding increase in yesterday's Budget, critics warn some important areas are not receiving enough money.
A former Wakari Hospital mental health nurse has been censured for verbally abusing patients, and inappropriately touching one of them.
Restraining an 85-year-old dementia sufferer several times in 2010 indicated systemic failures at Dunedin's Ross Home and Hospital, deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Theo Baker has found.
