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DunedinFebruary 20

Fraud possibility not disclosed

Stuart McLauchlan, the man charged with monitoring the Southern District Health Board, says he was not told of legal advice in 2010 that the South Link Health (SLH) funds dispute might involve fraud.

DunedinApril 24

Cancer-nurse delay slated

Health Minister Tony Ryall made a ''huge song and dance'' in the last Budget about improving cancer care, but fewer than half of the new cancer nurse co-ordinators have been recruited nearly a year after they were announced, Labour health spokeswoman Annette King says.

NationalJune 19

Govt announces $12m fund for health innovations

A new $12 million fund will be used over the next four years to trial health innovations and new technologies, Health Minister Tony Ryall says.

DunedinJune 6

Minister praises ED staff

Health Minister Tony Ryall surprised Dunedin Hospital emergency department staff with an impromptu visit yesterday.

NationalApril 20

Ryall under attack from top doctors

The honeymoon appears well and truly over between the senior doctors' union and Health Minister Tony Ryall.

NewsFebruary 6

Clinical trial concern

The health of patients who take part in treatment trials may be put in danger by Government changes to ethics committees, a group of academics says.

NationalJanuary 13

No follow-upon newborn blood spot card consent

People who may have forgotten they gave consent for their newborn baby's blood spots to be used in research after screening for metabolic disorders will not be contacted to see if they are still happy with that decision.

NationalJanuary 7

NZ breast-screening slated

Concerns have been raised in an independent report, and by experts and providers, about the sustainability of a national breast-screening service. Elspeth McLean reports.

NationalDecember 2

Ryall denies allegation over doctors talks

An allegation of "unhelpful behind-the-scenes involvement" by Health Minister Tony Ryall in the long-running senior doctors' pay talks has been made by the doctors' union.

NationalOctober 27

Free after-hours care for under-sixes

National is promising free after-hours medical care for children aged under six.

DunedinAugust 21

Govt tepid on health information review

Health Minister Tony Ryall sees no need for "great urgency" for a review of how health information is handled.

DunedinAugust 21

Spending money to save it at hospital

The National Health Board (NHB) expects its recommendations for Dunedin Hospital will save money, but has not yet provided any estimates to back this up.

QueenstownAugust 19

Generalism 'a good thing' in health service

Minister of Health Tony Ryall has asked for help from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - meeting in Queenstown this week - in increasing the emphasis on general scopes of practice.

DunedinMay 27

Delay oversight, Hundleby says

Far from being a deliberate ploy, the five-month delay in releasing correspondence from Canterbury neurosurgeons sought by the Otago Daily Times last December was an oversight, deputy director of the National Health Board Michael Hundleby says.

DunedinMay 26

Ryall happy issues being addressed

Health Minister Tony Ryall has welcomed the National Health Board's assessment of Dunedin Hospital systems announced this week.

NationalMarch 9

MAF and Fisheries to merge

The Ministry of Fisheries and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will be merged next year to save money, the Government confirmed today.

NationalMarch 2

Christchurch efforts stretch country's health resources

Patients around the country are being urged to be patient as resources are shifted to help Christchurch after the February 22 quake.

DunedinNovember 21

Ryall approves plan

Health Minister Tony Ryall has approved the Southern District Health Board's district annual plan with its $14.9 million deficit but wants to see more progress towards eliminating the deficit.

NationalNovember 18

Ryall creating fear: Greens

Concern that Health Minister Tony Ryall is creating a climate of fear in the health sector has been raised by Green Party health spokesman and former district health board chief executive, Kevin Hague.

DunedinNovember 5

Government reducing power of boards: Millar

District health boards' autonomy is quietly reducing and could reach the point where board members are little more than "mini monitors of performance", retiring Southern District Health Board chairman Errol Millar says.

DunedinNovember 4

Board head to go: Ryall

Health Minister Tony Ryall will not reappoint Errol Millar as chairman of the next Southern District Health Board.

DunedinOctober 17

Review of theatre use

Southland Hospital is one of seven sites selected to participate in a new programme to improve the productivity of operating theatres.

DunedinSeptember 24

$6.6m redevelopment for NICU and paediatric ward

The redevelopment of the neonatal intensive care unit and paediatric ward at is expected to be the most expensive part of the $24.38 million capital works projects planned for Dunedin and Wakari hospitals.

DunedinSeptember 21

Budget approval delaying upgrades

Building work is yet to start on the $24.4 million upgrade of Dunedin and Wakari hospital facilities because the Minister of Health has not approved the Southern District Health Board budget for this year.

DunedinAugust 29

Forum warns lives at risk

The recent case of a 46-year-old woman patient who "definitely" would have died without acute neurosurgery at Dunedin Hospital features in a hard-hitting letter from senior clinicians on the dispute over the service's future.