It's no yolk, omelette-making. "I shell overcome" may have been 70-year-old United States omelette-making supremo Howard Helmer's resolve when he found out in the 1980s someone had beaten his world record.
Concerns the Otago District Health Board may not be forecasting costs as well as it could in some areas was expressed by board member Tahu Potiki this week.
Controversial plans to have a general practitioner centre at Dunedin Hospital's emergency department will be among options to be explored at a meeting between board management and the Ministry of Health this month.
Helicopter flights for staff working in both Otago and Southland is one of the travel options which should be explored, Otago District Health Board chairman Richard Thomson says.
Extra pay for senior doctors cost the the Otago District Health Board $420,000 during the two junior doctors' strikes.
Five extra accommodation units for cancer patients having treatment in Dunedin will be available for use in early September when the Otago-Southland division of the Cancer Society completes the $600,000 upgrade of its building in Great King St.
Dunedin South MP David Benson-Pope is surprised the Department of Conservation has not seen contributing to the purchase of the Harbour Cone block as a priority, but he has not given up on the idea of government funding.
Otago District Health Board representatives hope to meet Mornington Primary Health Organisation bosses to try to find a way for the PHO's disease prevention programmes to continue.
The introduction of the pneumococcal vaccine for babies this month has been badly handled and has not been a "good look" for the health profession, a nurses union representative says.
Ideas to help relieve the shortage of doctors in New Zealand short-term involving both junior doctors and those with more than a sprinkling of grey hair were suggested in Wellington yesterday.
Dunedin Hospital's ward 8B opened yesterday afternoon after being closed to new admissions since Monday because of an outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Do not expect a speedy Government decision about whether parents of children conceived by invitro fertilisation should have the right to choose the sex of their babies, was the message from two University of Otago academics yesterday.
Greater community collaboration to address the difficulties of attracting health staff to the South was discussed at an Otago-Southland district health boards advisory meeting this week.
Carisbrook should be declared a historic place of outstanding significance and the site could become a public reserve with some buildings retained, a New Zealand Historic Places Trust report says.
Four of the eight beds closed in the rehabilitation ward at Wakari Hospital as a result of staffing shortages are expected to reopen early next month.
Pavs at 50 paces, hangi at high noon, a roast round-robin, or an Anzac biscuit offensive? Elspeth McLean casts an eye over the politics of baking.
Claims the Otago District Health Board pays lip service to community health care were made yesterday after a primary health organisation was told it could raise patients' fees to fund disease prevention programmes.
More than 400 extra influenza vaccines have been administered in Otago this year compared with the corresponding time last year.
The Southland District Health Board has joined the Otago board in deciding not to pay for laboratory tests ordered by specialists for private patients.
The earliest the New Zealand Historic Places Board of Trustees could consider the proposal to register Carisbrook as an historic place is August 22, Otago Southland Historic Places Trust area manager Owen Graham says.