Radiology wait times extending
Concern that patients could wait 20 months for some non-urgent scans at Dunedin Hospital was expressed at the Southern District Health Board hospitals' advisory committee.
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Praise for health board's efforts
Information on plans designed to improve Southern District Health Board performance was praised by board member Dr Malcolm Macpherson yesterday, but he warned of the need for consistency.
Invercargill doctor guilty of misconduct
An uncertified Invercargill urologist failed to provide appropriate care to a cancer patient, a tribunal says.
Southern board deficit second worst
Birth-video ban not likely here
Moves to ban fathers-to-be from video-recording the birth of their babies in some Australian hospitals seem unlikely to be copied in New Zealand hospitals.
Neurosurgery governance board meeting
The first meeting of the South Island neurosurgery governance board is being held today, at the Ministry of Health in Wellington.
Promising bookings for medical centre
Doubt about norovirus
Ill patients at Dunedin Hospital might not have norovirus as first suspected, but test results will take a few days, Southern District Health Board (Otago) emergency, medicine and surgery general m
Retiring ED head quick to argue for patients
SDHB committees to be decided at first meeting
The make-up of the Southern District Health Board advisory committees will be settled at the board's first meeting for the year, on February 3.