Government plans to boost the health workforce have brassed off the nurses’ union, which believes the reforms announced yesterday by Health Minister Andrew Little prioritise doctors.
The Ministry of Health has agreed to a range of proposed conditions, including extensive monitoring of any traffic and vibration issues, as it seeks fast-track building consent for the new Dunedin...
Southern Covid-19 hospitalisations remained high yesterday, as the number of new daily cases in Otago and Southland dropped below 400 for the first time since late June.
Dunedin Hospital was so desperately short of nurses at the weekend that 21 students were called in to help, a decision strongly criticised by the nursing union.
Wastewater tests suggest the South has passed the peak of the current Omicron wave of Covid-19, but also confirm that cases in Otago and Southland remain substantially under-reported.
More than 1400 southerners contracted Covid-19 at the weekend, as the latest wave of the pandemic disease continued to lay low substantial numbers of New Zealanders.
Daily southern Covid-19 cases roared past the 1000 mark yesterday, a surge which contributed to Southland Hospital being abruptly closed to all visitors except those seeing the most seriously ill patients.