Southern patients awaiting surgery are being advised to tell their surgical teams of past or present Covid infections which could result in complications during surgery.
Cancer treatment resources in the South are set to receive a major boost, after Pacific Radiology confirmed plans yesterday to open a new clinic in Dunedin.
There are 737 cases of Covid, 28 hospitalisations and two deaths to report in the South today, as national figures jump and the death toll passes 1000.
The first big flu season in several years has hit at least one Dunedin secondary school which has recorded daily absences reaching into triple figures.
An email sent by the Southern District Health Board chief executive acknowledging the hard work of staff on International Nurses Day is at the centre of controversy - because he didn't actually write it himself.
Nurses working in aged residential care have added their voices to those of their managers in calling on the Government for greater support for the sector.
The number of people first diagnosed with HIV in New Zealand last year is the lowest since the late 1990s, partly due to Covid-19 restrictions, figures released by the University of Otago's AIDS Epidemiology Group show.
Otago research has established that Long Covid patients have an almost identical chemical composition to people with myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome.
There are 889 new cases of Covid-19 in the South, as the DHB warns infections will continue to be widespread heading into winter. NZ has now passed more than 1 million cases since the pandemic began.