Radiation technologists take action again
Medical radiation technologists (MRTs) at Dunedin Hospital and Invercargill's Southland Hospital are again taking industrial action over the long-running pay dispute with District Health Boards New
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Hospital to trial e-prescriptions
Confirmation that electronic "signatures" will be allowed for Dunedin Hospital's national e-prescribing pilot, means the scheme should go ahead in two wards in September.
Panel for neurosurgery decision named
Two clinicians and a consumer representative make up the expert panel considering the future of neurosurgery in the South.
Personal health information workshop topic
How access to personal health information may be managed in future will be one of the topics at a community workshop looking at the future of patient records to be held in Dunedin next week.
The office desk: more germs than a toilet
You are safer to eat your lunch off a toilet seat than the average office desk - and be careful how you handle the taps on the way out: they are really filthy, says a visiting American microbiologi
Health board cuts credit card
Neurosurgery threat sounds alert for health of those in the South
Pete Hodgson sounds a warning about neurosurgery in Otago and Southland, and explains why.
Looking on bright side
SDHB unclear about Wakari smoking ban
Some psychiatric staff at Dunedin's Wakari Hospital did not want to prevent locked-in psychiatric patients smoking, while some patients used a toaster to light up during a ban, internal Southern Di
Letters on neurosurgery reaching director-general
Director-general of Health Stephen McKernan has been receiving a "small number" of letters about neurosurgery services, his office confirmed this week.