Health

A neurosurgeon has been on call to cover Dunedin Hospital at all times since it began relying on outside neurosurgeons at the beginning of last year, Southern District Health Board chief executive

When staff spend thousands of dollars extra on clinical supplies, they need to ask if it is the most important use of that money, Richard Thomson told the Southern District Health Board's hospitals

Lack of theatre time means Dunedin Hospital is having difficulty arranging acute surgery and some people may be waiting up to five days.

A third of New Zealand's schools are using hand driers that are potentially leaving children's hands dirtier than when they left the toilet cubicle.

The question of how much power district health board committees should have arose at a public health meeting in Invercargill yesterday.