Frustrated with what he sees as lack of progress on resolving long-standing concerns about patient treatment times in Dunedin Hospital's emergency department, clinical leader Dr John Chambers has turned to poetry.
Increased demand for cataract surgery and a lack of capacity to carry out extra work has resulted in Dunedin Hospital raising the threshold for such operations.
The Ministry of Health has no plans to change its four-year bowel cancer screening pilot which it says will give it time to watch and consider emerging evidence about other screening developments.
Electoral spending by Southern District Health Board candidates for the October elections was well below the $70,000 limit, the filed returns show.
Southern District Health Board has appointed Donovan Clarke, of Auckland, as kaiwhakahaere hauora Maori (general manager for Maori health).
The long-running radiographers' dispute has been settled, but people on both sides of the issue are calling for scrutiny of industrial relations processes.
One of the two neurosurgeons offered appointments by the Southern District Health Board is expected to arrive from Sweden in the first quarter of 2011, chief medical officer Richard Bunton (Otago) says.
Emeritus Prof Colin Gibson's donation of thousands of hymn books and reference works over almost 30 years to the Dunedin Public Libraries was marked yesterday when he was awarded the 2010 Library Citation.
The Government is "dragging the chain" on bowel cancer screening and the proposed pilot programme in Waitemata is unlikely to provide information relevant for New Zealand, Associate Prof Brian Cox says.
Longtime Dunedin community mental health services campaigner Jim Crowe has become the first consumer representative to be appointed to the Royal Australiasian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' general council.
After 49 years producing thousands of hams for his customers, it's not surprising North Dunedin butcher Neville Eskrick prefers a slice or two of turkey for his Christmas dinner.
Dunedin Hospital is considering whether to extend its usual Christmas shut-down period for elective surgery this year.
Taranaki District Health Board general manager of hospital and specialist services Joy Farley has been appointed interim implementation manager for the South Island Neurosurgery Service.
Successful Otago Southern District Health Board candidate Christopher Marlow's expenses were almost $4000 more than highest-polling candidate Richard Thomson's in the recent local government elections.
We are not likely to forget the day we buried Aunt Tui.
It is still unclear when the final ministerial appointee to the next Southern District Health Board will be announced.
Approval for the Southern District Health Board's district annual plan means building work should soon begin on the relocation of Dunedin Hospital's acute mental health ward to Wakari Hospital.
The new South Island Neurosurgery Service Governance Board is expected to hold its first meeting in January, but the location remains undecided.
Health Minister Tony Ryall has approved the Southern District Health Board's district annual plan with its $14.9 million deficit but wants to see more progress towards eliminating the deficit.
Procedure changes designed to avoid adverse events for patients during strikes have been effective so far during the latest industrial action, Southern District Health Board chief medical officer (Otago) Richard Bunton says.
