Funding must follow devolution
A genuine conversation is needed when changes to mental health services are proposed, writes Max Reid.
Health
Campaign promotes safe sleep for babies
$89 a child after hours
Parents pay up to $89 for after-hours medical appointments for children aged 6-17 in some parts of New Zealand, delegates heard yesterday.
Claim midwives' ideology hinders bids to stop falls
Ideological opposition from midwives makes it difficult to instigate change to hospital practices to reduce the incidence of neonatal falls, a junior paediatrics trainee says.
Concern over women smoking to lose weight
The number of middle-aged New Zealand women using smoking and compulsive exercise as a way to control their weight is particularly concerning, University of Otago researchers say.
21 serious adverse events
Mental health and addiction services in the South had 21 serious adverse events last year, a new report shows.
Cannabis laws not helping - health workers
The legal status of cannabis puts a ''massive block'' between client and clinician, Pact mental health clinical leader Matthew Peppercorn told a cannabis public forum at Dunedin Hospital.
Omani medical student hopes to practise in NZ
An international medical student who has spent nearly a decade studying in Dunedin says he is not ready to give up his goal of obtaining registration as a doctor in this country.
Health panel dead: Hague
A national public health committee that has not met for a couple of years has effectively been unlawfully disbanded, Green Party health spokesman Kevin Hague says.
Trend for GPs not to encourage PSA testing in men
A growing number of GPs will not initiate discussion of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing with male patients, research published yesterday in the New Zealand Medical Journal concludes.