Health

The introduction of the pneumococcal vaccine for babies this month has been badly handled and has not been a "good look" for the health profession, a nurses union representative says.

Controversial plans to have a general practitioner centre at Dunedin Hospital's emergency department will be among options to be explored at a meeting between board management and the Ministry of H

A new Aids threat is rising in India's numerous call centres, where young staff are increasingly having unprotected sex with multiple partners in affairs developed during night shifts, a top Aids e

Ideas to help relieve the shortage of doctors in New Zealand short-term involving both junior doctors and those with more than a sprinkling of grey hair were suggested in Wellington yesterday.

Greater community collaboration to address the difficulties of attracting health staff to the South was discussed at an Otago-Southland district health boards advisory meeting this week.

Politicians are looking at using an incentive-based system of writing off student loans to encourage young doctors to stay in New Zealand.

[comment caption=Is the public health system failing us?]Many people are spending thousands of dollars on private surgery in Otago because the public system is failing them, Dunedin ear, nose and t

Many people wrongly believe people have to lose consciousness to be concussed, Brain Injury Association Otago liaison officer Cathy Matthews says.During the nationwide Brain Injury Awareness Week t