Family doctors across Otago and Southland have been asked to only refer patients with urgent conditions to Southern District Health Board's ear nose and throat (ENT) department, as the short-staffed specialty tries to shorten its waiting list.
Confusing labelling on many medications, including those containing paracetamol, is a safety risk, researchers say.
A Southern District Health Board management report on the financial implications of proposed Wakatipu health services changes has been called "pussy-footing" by board member Richard Thomson.
The Southern District Health Board will "pick and choose" which recommendations from the National Health Board review of Wakatipu health services it will implement, chairman Joe Butterfield says.
She might have a heart murmur, but regular Opoho School visitor Isis the cat might be giving her owners a few palpitations too.
A new school dental clinic, based at Macandrew Intermediate, in South Dunedin, had an open day yesterday.
Southern District Health Board managers say proposed changes to Wakatipu health services will not save the amount the National Health Board suggests, but has stopped short of providing its own clear estimates.
He has taken to calling me Marjorie Proops.
District health boards are ending the year with a flurry of industrial negotiations involving more than 43,000 employees.
A relaxing sauna will be on the programme again soon at the Otago Youth Adventure Trust's Berwick camp, as the rebuilding required after last year's dramatic landslip nears completion.
Concern that handing over ownership of the Dunedin City Council's Harbour Cone block to a trust could lead to charges for users has been raised in submissions on governance of the land.
Dunedin Hospital's emergency department does not often see patients who have swallowed button-sized batteries, ED clinical leader Dr Tim Kerruish says.
His environmental credentials might be questionable, but the cat who regularly visits the Opoho School was determined not to be left out of the celebration of the school becoming the first in Otago to gain Green-Gold Enviroschool status this week.
People who lodge Accident Compensation Corporation claims in December stay off work longer on average than at any other time of the year and it adds $3 million to the annual weekly compensation bill, ACC says.
After 50 years in the family butchery trade, North Dunedin's Neville Eskrick has sold his business to someone who also began his career at 15.
Scissors at the ready and dressed to the nines, 2-year-old Evie Pennington was set for her starring role in the opening ceremony of the new dental clinic at the University of Otago's School of Dentistry yesterday.
An allegation of "unhelpful behind-the-scenes involvement" by Health Minister Tony Ryall in the long-running senior doctors' pay talks has been made by the doctors' union.
Two Dunedin people have been appointed to the governance team for the national newborn metabolic screening programme (NMSP), following a review of its protocols in recent years.
While deaths from Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (Sudi) have reduced dramatically over 20 years, more could be avoided if those caring for babies ensured babies always slept in a safe place, Nelson paediatrician Dr Nick Baker says.
The Southern District Health Board is one of 14 boards which did not meet the national target for shorter stays in its emergency departments in the first quarter of this financial year.