Mike Houlahan

The Southern District Health Board is meeting Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult and the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow to discuss setting up a Queenstown Covid-19 quarantine facility.

The chairmen of the South’s two main health organisations are at loggerheads after the Southern District Health Board refused a request from WellSouth chairman Dr Doug Hill to shift a proposed...

Half past seven is a reasonable time for breakfast, but at 7.30pm yesterday a Dunedin gathering had a breakfast with a difference, joining a group of Kurdish refugees via video link to share a meal.

The Southern District Health Board is negotiating to lease premises in Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin, as part of its response to Covid-19.

The Southern District Health Board is reviewing patient care procedures after a recent rise in infections and other complications.

Officials are confident a small cluster of community cases of Covid-19 in Christchurch has been contained.

Beds are going unused in Dunedin Hospital’s intensive care and high-dependency unit because the Southern District Health Board cannot find nurses to care for the patients who should be using them.

The Southern District Health Board needs to recruit more disabled people to ensure they are represented at all levels of the organisation, a report says.

Act New Zealand brings its campaign bus to town this week, although whether it will transport the public is an as yet unanswered question.

A chronic shortage of aged residential care nurses in the South is starting to affect the quality of care given to the elderly.

Southern public health staff will take an elimination-first approach should Covid-19 emerge in Otago and Southland over Christmas.

A Dunedin story more than 20 years in the making is one small step closer to being told.

Cancer patients face an anxious few weeks after medical physicists, who support the radiation treatment patients need, confirmed three days of strikes and other ongoing industrial action.

Southern child health services do not expect to be overwhelmed once the more infectious Delta strain of Covid-19 arrives in Otago and Southland.

Dedicated Covid-19 testing centres are being set up in Dunedin and Invercargill as southern health providers prepare for the reappearance of the pandemic disease.