While moves to get funding to support the Dunedin City Council's purchase of the 328ha Harbour Cone block continue, a council steering group is being set up to develop a plan for the property.
The Public Service Association will meet Otago District Health Board management this week to discuss how to ‘‘make the best of a bad situation'' over proposed cuts to mental health services, organiser Mark Ryan says.
A new digital system for radiology images at Dunedin Hospital to be introduced by late May will make access to X-rays faster and reduce the risk of them getting lost.
Some people who hoped to get orthopaedic surgery in the next six months face will have further delays, as Dunedin Hospital grapples with staff shortages and high numbers of trauma patients.
Up to 100 members of the Public Service Association employed in mental health services at Dunedin Hospital will meet today to discuss the planned reduction in the hospital's non-acute programmes.
Her new role as general manager of the Regent Theatre has more in common with her previous job managing a Maori health service than you might think, Sarah Anderson says.
Research subject Nigel Stanger likes to tell people he has gold-plated blood.
The Otago District Health Board has filed an application with the Dunedin City Council for resource consent to convert existing buildings at Wakari Hospital into offices and non-clinical areas, part of its multimillion dollar plans to redevelop both of its hospital sites.
Staff shortages and consistently overflowing wards for acute mental health patients are forcing the Otago District Health Board to cut back its services to non-acute patients.
It was hard to tell who was more nervous before their trip in the Brighton Surf Lifesaving Club's inflatable rescue boat last night - trainee search and rescue dog Tyke or his owner, Nicky Wallace.
Students and staff at Otago Polytechnic's Mellor's Training Restaurant in Dunedin may feel under more pressure than usual to excel tonight.
Party pills with benzylpiperazine (BZP) cannot be sold from next month - and hallucinogen salvia divinorum may be the next recreational drug to become a restricted substance in New Zealand.
Are we all becoming too accepting and blase about casual acts of street violence, asks Elspeth McLean. Should we dismiss them as merely some age-old, boys-will-be-boys behaviour or weird rutting ritual practised by inadequate men with too much booze or other drugs on board?
The red hats and purple clothing don't ‘‘go'', but that's the point for members of Dunedin's Red Revellers.
A new fraud policy approved at the Otago District Health Board yesterday will be amended to cover the protocol to be followed if board members suspect fraud.
The youthful City of Dunedin Pipe Band won grade two of the national pipe band championships in Papakura at the weekend, for the second year running.
The Otago District Health Board will be asked to approve a new and more comprehensive fraud policy when it meets today.
While pressure continues on the Otago District Health Board's short-staffed existing mental health system, planned new services are still dogged by funding uncertainty.
The shortage of specialists in Dunedin has reduced the number of ophthalmology trainees this year.
A Dunedin doctor who has chosen to pay $50,000 for her own 12-month Herceptin treatment believes more money could be found in Pharmac's budget for the breast cancer drug if it took a closer look at what it is spending on medicines for gut problems such as indigestion.