00 cash to lure nurses back
00 cash to lure nurses back
The Ministry of Health is offering nurses who have left healthcare up to $5000 in support payments to come back to work.
Mike Houlahan
Shortage of nurses is nationwide
Shortage of nurses is nationwide
Nurses and aged residential care facility operators have echoed the concerns of Southern DHB chief executive Chris Fleming about the dire shortage of workers to care for the region’s elderly.
Practices eager to get Rats
Practices eager to get Rats
Southern GPs are anxiously awaiting the arrival of rapid antigen Covid-19 tests at their clinics and medical centres, supplies which the WellSouth primary health organisation says are being kept in reserve until when they are needed.
Hundreds languish on MRI scan waiting list
Hundreds languish on MRI scan waiting list
More than 900 people are waiting for MRI scans at Dunedin Hospital, four times the ideal waiting list.
Clinicians call for more ED administrative support
Clinicians call for more ED administrative support
Dunedin Hospital’s emergency department needs more administrative support to improve patient safety, clinicians say.
Short of staff in aged care
Short of staff in aged care
Southern aged residential care facilities are turning away potential residents as a critical lack of nursing staff continues to hit the sector hard.
바카라사이트 캡틴 Case Shows variant making way south
바카라사이트 캡틴 Case Shows variant making way south
Omicron came a little bit closer to Otago and Southland yesterday after confirmation a Timaru person had tested positive to Covid-19.
Southern say: Rhetoric in resort sets scene for year
Southern say: Rhetoric in resort sets scene for year
It is a common New Zealand holiday season phenomenon that at some stage a horde of relatives will descend upon your house to stay for a day or three.
SDHB confirms no Omicron cases in South
SDHB confirms no Omicron cases in South
The Southern District Health Board, dealing with an increased amount misinformation and rumour, took the unusual step of putting out a statement to say there are no Covid-19 cases in the region.
Hospital ward described as a ‘pressure cooker’
Hospital ward described as a ‘pressure cooker’
Wakari Hospital’s Ward 10a is a "pressure cooker" trying to care for people who would be better off elsewhere, a mental health professional says.
Wakari 바카라사이트 온카판 10a 슬램
Wakari 바카라사이트 온카판 10a 슬램
Wakari Hospital’s ward 10A fails to meet the needs of the community, the chief ombudsman has said in a searing review of the mental health facility.
Two new primary birthing units funded
Two new primary birthing units funded
A $7 million financial boost for Otago maternity services will fund primary birthing units in Clyde and Wanaka.
Neurosurgeon on the horizon
Neurosurgeon on the horizon
There is hope after all that Dunedin Hospital might finally be about to hire a new neurosurgeon.
Board working on ‘whole of system approach’ to virus
Board working on ‘whole of system approach’ to virus
Southern health planners are "nervously confident" the region is prepared for an outbreak of the Covid-19 Omicron variant.
Opthalmology scrambles to cope
Opthalmology scrambles to cope
The Southern District Health Board’s ophthalmology service is nearing crisis point, and clinicians are scrambling to try to avoid waiting lists becoming so long that patients suffer irreversible...
SDHB의 백만 먹튀없는 바카라사이트 규모의 오류가 모든 사람이 누락 됨
SDHB's million-dollar error missed by everyone
A million-dollar accounting mistake has made the Southern District Health Board’s financial performance worse than expected.
Avalanche of cases predicted
Avalanche of cases predicted
Otago and Southland can expect more than 18,000 cases of Covid-19 this year, 70% of which are likely to occur in March and April, new modelling suggests.
ED a long way short of targets: clinicians
ED a long way short of targets: clinicians
Dunedin Hospital’s emergency department is a long way from meeting its performance targets despite WorkSafe New Zealand lifting a ‘‘please improve’’ order, clinicians say.
Relief for resort; council closes offices
Relief for resort; council closes offices
Queenstown was able to breathe a small sigh of relief yesterday after no further locations of interest were notified in connection with a suspected case of Omicron in the town.
838 women on hospital waiting list
838 women on hospital waiting list
More than 800 Southland women have been languishing on their hospital’s obstetrics and gynaecology waiting list, 20 of them for more than a year.