Mike Houlahan

The latest emergency birth at the Lumsden maternal and child hub shows the system put in place to provide midwife cover is still not working effectively, a local GP says.

Health authorities are trying to trace people who may have been in contact with a measles patient who visited Wanaka, Queenstown and Winton, and to a concert and student hall of residence in Dunedin.

It's been six years since people have been able to vote to elect a Southern DHB, a circumstance which demonstrates just what the successful candidates in the 2019 election will be up against.

Diana Sarfati’s life work has been to improve cancer treatment. Now the University of Otago, Wellington academic has six months to make a lasting difference.