Health

An additional $6.5 million of new funding in the coming year will go towards more beds and specialists to run residential treatment programmes for people with eating disorders.

South Link Health's controversial proposal for a primary health organisation (PHO) covering Otago, Southland and South Canterbury, which it says would save $1.3 million a year in administration cos

A growing list of equipment at Dunedin Hospital which is near obsolete and constantly breaking down is forcing cuts to some services as the Otago District Health Board works to re-prioritise spendi

Side effects are one thing cancer patients cannot afford to ignore, and the Southern Blood and Cancer Service is leading the country with a new clinic where patients can drop in after treatment.

The introduction of a new patient management computer system at Dunedin Hospital has been delayed again and will "undoubtedly" have cost overruns.

Swine flu was creating a lot of excitement, but the recent outbreak of measles in Dunedin was "actually much, much more dangerous", the Otago District Health Board chief medical officer says.

The reality that some internationally-agreed goals for fighting tuberculosis will not be achieved by 2015 is a "pretty damning indictment" of the insufficient resources made available, a leading Am