A glimpse of what Dunedin’s new hospital might look like has been offered in documents supporting the Ministry of Health’s application to demolish the former Cadbury factory.
Preserving the Cadbury factory facades as part of the new Dunedin Hospital rebuild would cost between $32 and $74 million, newly released documents claim.
A family grieving over the death of their baby girl in hospital suffered further distress when an unwitting Southern DHB staff member rang to ask for feedback on its care.
The heritage facades of the former Cadbury factory are a step closer to demolition after the Ministry of Health lodged consents for them to be levelled to make way for the new Dunedin Hospital.
A Dunedin mother whose son died soon after his usual epilepsy drug was replaced by a controversial alternative medication is disappointed by a new report into drug supply agency Pharmac’s decision...
The Cabinet today considers whether to drop New Zealand’s Covid-19 alert level status to 1, as a 16th day in a row with no new cases of the pandemic disease was recorded yesterday.
"This is a happy occasion," Dunedin North MP David Clark trilled to the House, as the Health Minister steered the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Bill through its committee stages.
Artistic life is starting to return to Dunedin following Covid-19 lockdown, as concert venues prepare to reopen and the cancelled Midwinter Carnival considers an alternative event.
The Southern District Health Board still plans to build a maternal hub in Wanaka, but it may not be in the Gordon Rd location unveiled by the organisation last year.
There have been no active cases of Covid-19 in the South since mid May but the Southern District Health Board remains on high alert for cases of the disease, an SDHB meeting was told yesterday.
A fortnight ago, among the Bills introduced by the Government under urgency following the Budget, was the Forests (Regulation of Log Traders and Forestry Advisers) Amendment Bill.
The tourism sector needs to be ‘‘reimagined’’ following Covid-19, finance minister Grant Robertson told an Otago Chamber of Commerce post-Budget session yesterday.