The seven-day rolling average of southern Covid-19 cases has dropped by 74, as Otago and Southland yesterday recorded the lowest daily new case number since February 20.
Two Otago Polytechnic student nurses called in to help at the chronically short-staffed Dunedin Hospital last month watched over a patient on suicide watch.
Neurologist David Gow has accepted one of the most difficult roles in the southern health system, having been named Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand Southern’s new chief medical officer.
It is not every week that Parliament enacts legislation which has constitutional ramifications, which made Wednesday a red-letter day for public law devotees.
Back in 1967, Owen Woodhouse released his landmark report which recommended that New Zealand set up a no-fault compensation scheme for unintended injury.
Regional Development Minister Stuart Nash will either achieve great things for southern engineering firms, or have to come back to Otago and explain why not.
The number of people in hospital in the South who have Covid-19 has plunged in the past week, providing a much-needed easing of the workload of clinicians, especially in rural hospitals.
Fast-track consent has been granted for the outpatient building of the new Dunedin Hospital, despite the independent panel which assessed the application expressing concern about the site.