Mike Houlahan

A group of Dunedin lawyers and professionals have offered their services free of charge to help people caught out in the collapse of Dunedin financial adviser Barry Kloogh's businesses.

The Southern District Health Board will prioritise the care of around 60 patients who make a combined 1600-plus visits to hospital emergency departments each year.

The health care homes initiative means GPs are seeing more patients, a Southern District Health Board commissioners meeting heard yesterday.

Long-serving New Zealand Nurses Organisation organiser Lorraine Lobb is retiring from her role representing the region’s nurses. She talks to health reporter Mike Houlahan...

It says a lot about the perception of the standard of political debate that it comes as something of a surprise when political opponents respectfully disagree about something ... let alone when...

Dunedin Hospital's beleaguered gastroenterology department needs greater resources to prevent more people having adverse outcomes after being denied colonoscopies, GPs say.

The Southern District Health Board may have to postpone X-rays and scans next Monday, after medical imaging technologists gave notice of strike action.

Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker yelled at and abused officials helping him manage a Bill through the House, it was claimed in Parliament yesterday.

Doctors are reluctant to refer potential bowel cancer patients to the trouble-plagued Dunedin Hospital gastroenterology department in fear a colonoscopy request will be declined, a local GP says.

The Southern District Health Board has ranked lowly in a national survey of how well DHBs encourage staff to take leadership roles.

A plan for paramedics to replace midwives on rescue helicopters carrying women with serious health issues while in labour could place the lives of mothers and babies at risk, a midwife says.

Claims the Southern District Health Board is a toxic workplace are "bang on", staff who have contacted the Otago Daily Times say.

Heritage advocates have begged planners managing the new Dunedin Hospital project to reconsider plans to demolish almost all of the buildings on the former Cadbury factory site.

Former National Prime Minister Keith Holyoake's famous advice that first-term backbench MPs should learn to "breathe through their nose" before trying to make their mark on Parliament has echoed...

Improving health outcomes for underprivileged or under-resourced people is a major aim of recently appointed Southern District Health Board medical officer of health Anura Jayasinghe.

The Southern District Health Board should be a workplace where staff feel safe to raise employment issues, a newly appointed executive in charge of quality control says.

A range of recent official and anecdotal reports have highlighted workplace culture issues at various Southern District Health Board sites. Health reporter Mike Houlahan asks if one of the region's...

The return of a democratically elected Southern District Health Board has been greeted with enthusiasm.