Cancer survival rates improve
Cancer survival rates have improved markedly - although the picture is not so rosy if you are Maori or poor, a University of Otago report says.
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Proud history of fighting for service
Tuatapere has long had to fight for its maternity services, explains former Tuatapere Hospital manager Isabel Fraser.
Gastro centre partnership unlikely
The Southern District Health Board is no longer confident of partnering the University of Otago in funding a gastrointestinal diseases centre development, although the university remained key to es
AWF expands healthcare holdings, acquiring NNZ
Listed company AWF Group is continuing its expansive healthcare acquisitions with the purchase of South Island healthcare provider Nursing New Zealand, which provides a wide range of services acros
Young Maori health disparity revealed
Young Maori are being admitted to hospital with acute illnesses at a significantly higher rate than non-Maori of the same age, according to a report by a University of Otago research unit being rel
Failing may mean mass re-screening
Project's aim to help on-call GPs
Rural GPs providing on-call services 24 hours a day will be helped by a Southern Primary Health Organisation initiative, PHO chief executive Ian Macara says.
Reducing screening errors
Credibility is a vital component of medical screening services. Without it, they stand to lose the confidence of the subjects for whose benefit they exist.
Health board, trust at odds
It is "disappointing" a Southland maternity centre is vowing to stay open when its contract with Southern District Health Board expires at the end of the month, DHB deputy chairman Paul Menzies, of
Nurses accept 4.5% pay rise
Nurses have ratified a 4.5% pay rise staggered over two years, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation announced yesterday.