Health and Disability Commissioner Anthony Hill says his office took too long to complete an investigation into a complaint from a woman with secondary cancer.
Those who know my competitive nature is roughly the same as that of a dead slug may be surprised to know serious competition has been on my mind this week.
Alert readers will have noticed there has been a flurry of documents about Novopay released recently under the Official Information Act.
The cost of providing special support to pupils sitting NCEA external exams rose by almost $159,000 last year, mainly due to the recognition of dyslexia.
The issue of minimum pay for ''sleepover'' time is expected to go before the Employment Court again next year, this time involving workers in school boarding houses.
On this day after Christmas I have decided it is only right for me to be frank, incensed and more.
After 10 years as New Zealand's health and disability commissioner, Prof Ron Paterson knows better than most of us that doctors are not perfect.
Difficulties in the relationship between the National Screening Unit and the independent advisory group for BreastScreen Aotearoa were made public in December in Australian screening specialist Jennifer Muller's hard-hitting review of the national screening programme. Information released under the Official Information Act suggests tension and frustration continue. Elspeth McLean reports.
Restaurants in Dunedin come and go but a few have withstood the competition and changing economic times. In the first of this series Elspeth McLean talks to the Gianone family about their popular eatery Etrusco.
Banning sugar-rich fizzy drinks from schools will do nothing to stop the high levels of sugar many children are getting from powdered fruit-flavoured drinks prepared at home, University of Otago researcher Associate Prof Winsome Parnell says.
A publicly-funded alternative levothyroxine drug could be available in New Zealand by late October, Health Minister David Cunliffe said on Thursday.
The announcement of another review of mental health services in Otago sounds like a rerun of work already done, Otago District Health Board member Louise Rosson says.
Proposed delays to the development of an Otago child and youth strategy were questioned at the Otago and Southland district health boards' community and public health advisory committee this week.
Dr Dave Baldwin might work in Bulls, but he is not a man to mince words, mate.
Parents who think their children are safe because they are watching television or playing computer games may be kidding themselves.
While improvements are being made to acute stroke treatment at Dunedin Hospital, getting patients to recognise stroke symptoms and seek urgent help is still a major issue, Dr Brendon Rae says.
The Government is pressing ahead with plans for a bowel cancer screening pilot expected to start next year, despite calls for a rethink from screening programme authority Associate Prof Brian Cox.
When Waikouaiti woman Lis Bartlett was diagnosed with bowel cancer at 62, she took a day off work and struggled to come to terms with the news.
If a Boeing 737 bound from Dunedin for Wellington crashed every six weeks killing all the occupants, people would be outraged. However, bowel cancer in New Zealand kills that many people and...
When Pat Saunders' glaucoma was picked up during an awareness week for the condition, she joked with the doctor that if it had been a different "week" he might have suspected a different disease.