The latest results of the Government's Health Targets show 97% of Southern District Health Board patients ready for cancer radiation treatment are starting that within the four-week target.
Southern District Health Board is one organisation and its major hospitals should have common systems for dealing with complaints, chairman Joe Butterfield says.
School principals might not usually smile at pupils making 1874 mud balls and preparing to throw them, but Broad Bay head John Goulstone was a happy man this week.
Work on the new $3.6 million acute mental health ward at Wakari Hospital is about a third of the way through and on target to be completed at the end of September.
Karen Keith is no stranger to the practice of acupuncture, having inserted millions of needles over more than 20 years.
Getting the right number of nursing staff to cover patients with varying needs is being made easier in some Dunedin and Invercargill hospital wards.
A settlement of the collective agreement between district health boards and senior doctors seems some way away, with the executive of the doctors' union rejecting an offer it described as "woeful".
The development of neurosurgery at Dunedin Hospital will include the appointment of an extra registrar, it was announced yesterday.
District health boards have said they will carry out an extra 2600 elective procedures in the last three months of this financial year, 1400 short of the number requested.
Progress on planning for clinical services across Otago and Southland has been slow, but staff are not being "entirely negative", Southland chief medical officer David Tulloch says.
In the past few days there has been considerable frenzy in party headquarters, according to hopefully reliable reports oozing from those smoke-free rooms.
It may not have been quite the length of Royal wedding coverage, but yesterday Margaret (91) and Donald (95) Malcolm were able to view themselves briefly in a film taken on their big day in Christchurch 65 years ago.
Stadium collapse, terrorism, a snowfall causing transport mayhem, a norovirus or flu outbreak and large numbers of drunk people are just some of the scenarios considered by emergency planners in the build-up to the Rugby World Cup.
The efficiency of New Zealand's healthcare system was brought home to Dr Penny Andrew when on her recent Harkness Fellowship in the United States it took her nine weeks to see a health practitioner.
District health boards are being offered contracts with ACC at prices well below actual costs, this month's Southern District Health Board's hospitals' advisory committee meeting was told.
Has your allergic reaction to a medication been properly recorded in your medical records so you are not at risk in future? Health reporter Elspeth McLean has some advice from her own experience of medication that didn't agree with her.
Planned improvements to the country's medical warning system (MWS) could avoid some deaths and unnecessary misery for a significant number of people, Dr Sandy Dawson says.
A Dunedin emergency department nurse in Christchurch when the February earthquake struck did not hesitate to help, even though she had her 74-year-old grandmother in tow.
An Invercargill nurse deemed fit to practise by the Nursing Council has failed in his bid to lodge a personal grievance eight months after he was dismissed by the Southern District Health Board concerned about his clinical competence.
Improved communication in the operating theatre has been one of the most noticeable results of using the World Health Organisation surgical safety checklist at Dunedin Hospital for the past year.
