Rising rate of Caesarean births in Dunedin queried
No "dedicated project" existed to reduce the Caesarean-section rate at Dunedin Hospital, despite its continuing to show an increase, an Otago District Health Board committee was told this week.
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Bid to cut wait times
Dunedin Hospital is looking at ways to reduce waiting times for hundreds of patients who are waiting up to 45 weeks to receive non-urgent abdominal ultrasound scans.
Powell to oversee change
Health board falls short in key area
Obese patients' treatment 'primitive'
Treatment of overweight patients by the Otago District Health Board is primitive and there needs to be co-ordination between community and hospital services, professor of paediatrics and child he
Dunedin hospital workers walk off job
Health board performance report due today
The first quarterly reports showing how well district health boards are performing against six national health targets will be published today - but some of the data may not be accurate.
Case for trauma death cuts
Ten percent of people who died from trauma before they reached hospital had survivable injuries, new research studying fatalities in Otago and Southland shows.
Hospital staff strike for pay claims
Chemical leak disrupts hospital
Elective surgery and non urgent lab testing has been suspended at Wellington Hospital following a chemical leak this morning.