Hitting the Ministry of Health target for elective procedures taking place within 120 days of an appointment being made is a priority, the Southern District Health Board's new electives services...
Toni Vivier is scheduled to give birth in Winton, but the Te Anau woman is worried her new baby will arrive at an unknown point between home and there.
The fraught relationship between the Southern District Health Board and the operators of the Lumsden Maternity Centre has deteriorated further, as the SDHB opted not to send a representative to a...
Dunedin's next Nadia Reid or Martin Phillipps may have taken the first steps of their musical career on Saturday, when Taieri College hosted the Otago heats of the annual Smokefreerockquest.
Computers and government have been a major issue this past fortnight with the fallout from National accessing Budget data still proving dangerously radioactive to a range of politicians and civil...
The next stage of the revamp of the southern primary healthcare system is about to begin, as Alliance South seeks expressions of interest in developing community health hubs.
Fewer than 5% of New Zealand children who have before-school health checks record abnormal scores, but not all of them are referred for further assessment, University of Otago research has found.
That last beer or glass of wine may have cost you $12, but it could cost your employer more than $1000 a year and the New Zealand economy $1.65 billion annually, new research suggests.
A long-standing passion for and involvement in human rights law has led to Dunedin lawyer Sarah Eyre being appointed one of five new deputy chairmen and women to the Human Rights Review Tribunal.
No Dunedin lead maternity community midwives are accepting new clients for December and January, a situation a local midwife fears will become the norm.
Southern District Health Board medical officer of health Marion Poore retired from the SDHB yesterday. She spoke to health reporter Mike Houlahan about a life’swork devoted to community health.
This may have been the Wellbeing Budget, but Budget 2019's bottom-line numbers show Finance Minister Grant Robertson has not taken his eye off the nation's wealth.