Mike Houlahan

Southerners trying to kick addictions to hard drugs are having to wait two years to gain treatment.

Help is on the way for Dunedin Hospital’s embattled emergency department.

Cost-cutting measures taken 13 years ago meant Southland Hospital was woefully ill-equipped to handle the arrival of two Covid-19 positive sailors.

The Southern District Health Board has finally made some progress in reducing record waiting lists for radiation oncology treatment, but it fears the Covid-19 lockdown will stall that momentum.

The new Dunedin Hospital construction project will add a maximum of $100 million a year to the city’s economy, a newly released document predicts.

There is no set formula for deciding which of our local MPs feature in Southern Say each week.

Fast-track consent documents for the new Dunedin Hospital have been lodged and are being considered by an independent panel.

Plans for resuscitating the second stage of Dunedin Hospital’s problem-plagued new intensive care unit are close to being completed.

Southern health organisations are sending reinforcements north to help Auckland colleagues battling to contain the outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19.

The Government is seeking to revamp how passengers and crew arriving in New Zealand are transferred to managed isolation and quarantine.

Projected staffing levels for the new Dunedin Hospital will likely be inadequate, doctors warn.

Dunedin National list MP Michael Woodhouse, demoted by party leader Judith Collins just over a year ago, is back in the good books and has been named shadow Leader of the House.

Just as demand for the Covid-19 vaccine hits record levels, supplies may have to be managed over the next month to ensure no-one misses out, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.

As the saying has it, what goes around comes around.

New Zealand’s abrupt shift to Covid-19 Alert Level 4 a week ago has worked, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.