Gastroenterology may have been in the limelight in Dunedin for all the "wrong reasons", but a meeting in the city should remedy that, gastroenterologist Dr Michael Schultz says.
The $2.6 million contract to provide kits for the four-year bowel cancer screening pilot which begins in Waitemata in October has gone to a Japanese manufacturer.
Projects at Southland Hospital have led to staff being "more efficient and thoughtful" in the way they dealt with emergency department patients, Southland chief medical officer David Tulloch says.
Forward exchange cover of about $NZ4 million will be taken out by the Southern District Health Board to remove possible currency risks associated with buying a new linear accelerator.
Dunedin will be the place to be in 2013 if you are a botanist, with hundreds expected to take part in three major botanical meetings that year, during which Dunedin Botanic Garden will celebrate its 150th anniversary.
A six-month delay to the redevelopment of Dunedin Hospital's gastroenterology department is not acceptable, the Southern District Health Board's chairman says.
Two National Health Board reviews affecting the Southern District Health Board will be discussed in secret at the Southern board's meeting in Invercargill tomorrow.
The move of Dunedin Hospital's acute mental-health ward to Wakari Hospital has been delayed until late January.
Despite carrying out almost 10% more urgent surgery than expected, Otago public hospital services came close to meeting their overall elective surgery targets last financial year.
One of the country's major medical conferences will be held in the Forsyth Barr Stadium next August.
This year, the four-day New Zealand Medical Association's annual South General Practice Conference and Medical Exhibition was transferred to Dunedin from Christchurch and held in the Dunedin Town Hall in July.
A call for doctors' professional organisations to "step up" their monitoring of doctors' performances to retain public confidence has been made by New Zealand Medical Council chairman Dr John Adams.
A 1.8m-tall, 100kg Ashburton man says he is more disappointed than angry that the driver of a truck that knocked him into a ditch on State Highway 1 near Oamaru on Saturday did not stop.
Space will be a challenge for the gastrointestinal diseases centre being set up by the Southern District Health Board and the University of Otago at Dunedin Hospital.
Two serious incidents at Dunedin Hospital are under investigation and one of them involves the death of a patient.
A vision for Dunedin Hospital is promoted in a hard-hitting internal report expressing serious concerns about the state of the hospital which, it says, offers many patients a "very poor service".
Recent prostate cancer research will be among the topics discussed at the Prostate Cancer Foundation's annual conference in Dunedin this weekend.
The South Island neurosurgery service expert panel set up last year to sort out the impasse over the service cost $78,625, the National Health Board says.
A National Health Committee's report suggesting men should be encouraged to seek up-to-date information from their general practitioners about prostate cancer screening and treatment has been praised as well as criticised.
There is something about playcentre families taking to the streets, worried about possible funding cuts, which makes me uneasy.
Demolition of Southland Hospital's old nurses' home and administration building will not go ahead before October, to allow anyone interested in paying for their preservation to come forward.
