Mike Houlahan

Nurses will make up their own minds whether to accept a pay offer from district health boards, without direction from their union.

The Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction is committed to reflecting what it hears at its public meetings in its final report, chairman Ron Paterson told a public meeting in Dunedin last night.

The first phase of the detailed business case for the new Dunedin hospital will be finished within the next couple of months, project chairman Pete Hodgson said.

The Southern District Health Board has approved a potential $1.2 million plan to try to eliminate an MRI waiting list so long that patients can linger for eight months before their scan is performed.

As New Zealand’s population gets older, the number of people with dementia will rise, but also the number of older people with other mental health issues and addiction problems, a Dunedin...

The head of mental health for the Southern District Health Board has resigned.

Mike Houlahan reviews The Bulford Kiwi: The Kiwi we Left Behind, by Colleen Brown. Published by Bateman.

Central Otago and the Lakes District will now have a chance to be heard by the Government inquiry into mental health and addiction issues.

District health boards have been reminded by the auditor-general to keep a close eye on their chief executives.

The Southern District Health Board is dealing with a different sort of "housing" crisis - expressions of interest by GP practices in becoming Health Care Homes are higher than expected.

Junior doctors based in Britain are being targeted by the Southern District Health Board as the solution to staffing shortages, and a recruiting drive is about to be launched.

Southern District Health Board says it will seek an accreditation review of Dunedin hospital's radiology department next month.

Dunedin's proposed new hospital may see changes in the way after hours medical care is provided in the city, the new chairman of the Dunedin Urgent Doctors and Accident Centre committee says.

District Health Board funding increases announced in last week's Budget cannot come fast enough for the Southern DHB, which racked up a $3.7 million deficit for April - $2.1 million more than...