Mike Houlahan

Mental health and addiction services are unbalanced, under-resourced, unfocused and require a major shakeup to make them patient-centric, the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction says.

The Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction had a special plea to politicians in its 219-page report, released yesterday.

New Zealanders need to do more to help each other deal with a "rising tide" of mental health and addiction issues, the report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction says.

A reunion 53 years and 19,000km in the making took place in Mosgiel yesterday, as three Kiwi veterans of the London Ambulance Service (LAS) met.

"Frontliners", an exhibition of photographs of ruins in Dunedin might conjure  up images of crumbling Victorian buildings or decaying Edwardian homes.

New Zealand should stage pandemic preparedness exercises at least every four years, a new report recommends.

A health initiative launched in Invercargill four years ago has yet to deliver marked improvement in the city residents’ wellbeing, a new report says.

Southlanders dealing with a range of medical issues stemming from sexual violence have been angered by planned changes to counselling services.

The safety of mothers and babies will be put at risk by the decision to downgrade Lumsden Maternity Centre, local MP Hamish Walker has told Parliament’s health select committee.

Family planning services in Dunedin and Invercargill could be disrupted by planned industrial action in mid-December. It would be  the first time Family Planning staff  had gone on strike.

The Southern District Health Board may eventually move to a completely electronic system for staff access to personal health information in the wake of a clinician losing a file with details of 23...

A measles patient in Milford Sound has probably  passed the disease on to at least one other person.

Many doctors struggle to identify — and then treat — pain, the editorial in the latest edition of the New Zealand Medical Journal says.

The Southern District Health Board is hoping to implement an advance care directive scheme for mental health patients in the region.

Twenty booklets advising over-60s of their entitlements have landed Dunedin South MP Clare Curran in more hot water.