The Southern District Health Board has been left red-faced after having to withdraw a paper due to be considered on Monday which set out details of changes to radiology services in rural hospitals.
Michael Woodhouse and David Clark no longer have political responsibility for health, but that has not stopped them clashing about the new Dunedin Hospital.
Projects have been delayed or cancelled and services are managing bottlenecks of patients as the Southern District Health Board copes with the ongoing impact of Covid-19.
Parking may be removed at certain times of the day from streets either side of the former Cadbury factory while it is demolished to make way for the new Dunedin hospital.
Dunedin Hospital has dramatically increased its number of ventilators and has plans in place to deploy them throughout the building should a Covid-19 resurgence happen in the South.
Courts should become "guardians of the environment" and accept civil cases when defendants are sued for contributing to climate change, a group of University of Otago legal academics say.
A Southern District Health Board investigation into the death of an Invercargill man from Covid-19 is in its final stages, the Ministry of Health says.
The Ministry of Health expects to announce further details of New Zealand’s new pre-flight Covid-19 testing regime next week, and it could be extended to other routes.