Govt funding urged for geriatric care
A nationwide health-care providers' group is calling for an urgent injection of government funds to build more geriatric hospitals and dementia units.
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Hospital making healthy choices
Free beer offends health advocate
[comment caption=Do you think health boards should accept funding from fast food chains?]By associating itself with companies like Speight's, the Otago District Health Board was working against the
Mental health website helps depressed youth
More than 2000 text messages have been sent by young Otago people to the mental health website, the Lowdown, in its 10 months of operation.
Hospital staff positions still vacant after two years, figures show
Some specialist positions with the Otago District Health Board have remained unfilled for more than two years, figures released to the Otago Daily Times show.
Use of alcohol or drugs by teenagers doubles risk of damage
Two dead in virus outbreak
Two people are dead and more than a dozen are sick after a suspected norovirus outbreak.
Health camps face funding crisis
New Zealand children's health camps face a funding crisis which may force the closure of those at Roxburgh, in Central Otago, and either Rotorua or Otaki.
Blind patient went hungry; not told meals there
A blind hospital patient did not receive meals because nobody told them their the meals were there, the Otago and Southland District Health Board's disability support advisory committee meeting hea
Midwives should apologise - commission
Health and Disability Commissioner Ron Paterson has recommended three midwives apologise for a botched delivery in which a baby girl sustained brain damage and the mother lost up to two litres of b