Praise for mental-health plan
A draft mental-health plan promises a new start for mental-health patients still "languishing" in wards, Corstorphine Baptist Community Trust chief executive Wendy Halsey says.
Health
Proposal to reduce services at Isis centre
40 medical mishaps include power-failure death
A patient on a ventilation machine at home who died because of a power failure is one of 40 medical mishaps recorded by the Southern District Health Board in 2010-11.
Neurosurgery halfway mark reached
Hepatitis C on increase in Dunedin
Cases of hepatitis C are on the increase in Dunedin, largely attributed to the rising popularity of backyard tattooing.
Clinical trial concern
The health of patients who take part in treatment trials may be put in danger by Government changes to ethics committees, a group of academics says.
ED's six-hour target 84% for December
Dunedin Hospital's emergency department had a particularly busy December but still performed reasonably well in keeping waiting times in check, Otago chief operating officer Vivian Blake told the h