Mike Houlahan

A public-minded group of lawyers have given their time to try to help people caught up in the nightmare collapse of a Dunedin investment adviser’s companies.

A new suicide prevention strategy, a focus on workforce development and greater involvement of families are key features of a new Southern District Health Board mental health and addiction plan.

Eighteen months after being slated in a commissioner report, the SDHB's ophthalmology service is showing "enormous improvement'', the organisation says.

Dunedin man Joshua Perry's petition to improve disabled people's access to housing modifications has received partial support from the Ministry of Health, but it has come out against one of his main proposals.

A chasm between Invercargill doctors and southern health officials over provision of after-hours services appears to have been bridged.

Managers at the Southern District Health Board were aware for around three years of issues with its urology service causing long delays in treatment, a Health and Disability Commissioner report has found.