Mike Houlahan

DHB's April deficit exceeds estimate

Radiology can operate without accreditation, but the loss of status means Dunedin Hospital is...

DHB's April deficit exceeds estimate

District Health Board funding increases announced in last week's Budget cannot come fast enough for the Southern DHB, which racked up a $3.7 million deficit for April - $2.1 million more than...

Funding for heating feasibility study

The Dunedin hospital rebuild project has secured funding for a feasibility study for a district heating scheme, convener Pete Hodgson says.

Hospital: ICU bed shortage due to sudden patient influx

Cardiac surgery services at Dunedin Hospital are under pressure due to a sudden influx of severely ill patients.

SDHB works to reduce infection rates

The Southern District Health Board is working with outside experts to establish why its numbers of infections of all types rose last year.

Better care key to new strategy

Better care key to new strategy

Focusing organisations on providing better healthcare for people will ease the implementation of the new primary and community care strategy, the newly appointed chairwoman of Alliance South says.

Hospital will be built to withstand quakes, floods

An artist's impression of the new Dunedin Hospital.

Hospital will be built to withstand quakes, floods

Dunedin's new hospital will be built to withstand whatever nature can throw at it, rebuild chairman Pete Hodgson says.

Big health investment could be just the start

The 20 DHBs serve a population of 4.8 million, compared to New South Wales in Australia which has...

Big health investment could be just the start

At 20% of Government expenditure, health is always a big part of the Budget menu. Yesterday, with the biggest capital injection in health for a decade, it was the main course.

Focus on hospitals, DHB funding

Fixing hospitals, enabling access to care and addressing New Zealand's ageing population were Health Minister David Clark's priorities in yesterday's Budget.

Cash boost eases Southern DHB's woes

Keeping the old Dunedin Hospital functioning until the new one is built has probably become a great deal easier for the Southern DHB as the cash-strapped organisation gets a cash injection as part of the Budget's health-funding booster.

Govt has acted on concerns of midwives, Clark says

Govt has acted on concerns of midwives, Clark says

Community midwives received a long-awaited pay rise in yesterday's Budget.

Boost for SDHB in Budget

Boost for SDHB in Budget

The cash-strapped SDHB is to get a cash injection as part of the Budget's health funding booster.

Labour gets chance to give health a boost

Health Minister David Clark is being urged to push ahead with reform. Photo: NZ Herald

Labour gets chance to give health a boost

While all the Budget day attention will be on Finance Minister Grant Robertson, arguably it is Health Minister David Clark who has the more difficult job.

Director of student health service calls time

Kim Ma'ia'i is stepping down after 14 years as director of the University of Otago's Student...

Director of student health service calls time

Kim Ma'ia'i, director of the University of Otago's Student Health Service, is stepping down.

August date tipped for hospital contract

The main architectural contract for the new Dunedin hospital should be awarded in August, Southern Partnership Group chairman Pete Hodgson said yesterday.

Hospice preparing for future demand with training

Otago Community Hospice chief executive Ginny Green has seen the organisation's focus reverse in...

Hospice preparing for future demand by training aged-care providers

An ageing population will place unprecedented demand on hospice services — a tide of patients Otago Community Hospice is preparing for now.

Cabinet dispensation required to reject partnership model

Cabinet dispensation was required for the Minister of Health to rule out a public-private partnership to build the new Dunedin Hospital, a newly released Cabinet paper says.

Tiptoeing around elephant of obesity

Few people like being told they are overweight — and portly patients seeing their doctors are no exception.

History as recalled with port and cigars

History as recalled with port and cigars

Mike Houlahan reviews France: A History: From Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich.

On course to clear wait for ophthalmology

The firm hired by the Southern District Health Board to clear its backlog of ophthalmology cases says it is on course to carry out its contracted 1000 appointments.

Chosen sites stacked up well

Three other inner city sites were considered for the new Dunedin hospital before the Wilsons/Cadbury blocks were selected, a newly released Cabinet paper shows.

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