Most healthcare professionals will be aware of the benefits associated with the preservation of independence for their older ...

What a week, and what a lot of focus, focus, focus. Simeon Brown must be just loving it in Shane Reti’s old chair. It’s seven days since Mr Brown got the vice-regal nod, his warrant as the 45th health ...

The University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka welcomes the end to uncertainty that today’s announcement about the future of Dunedin Hospital provides to the community. Vice-Chancellor Grant Robertson ...

The Coalition Government’s scaled-back new Dunedin hospital build is putting cost-cutting ahead of health and wellbeing, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) ...

The people of Dunedin have won in an almost year-long battle to have their hospital confirmed, but National’s delays have cost dearly. “Though there are fewer beds than originally planned, this is a ...

Gabrielle Baker shares her feelings of respect and loss, and recounts personal interactions with the late Dame Tariana Turia For my first column of 2025 I am compelled to mark the passing of Kahurangi ...

The former Cadbury factory will be the site of the Inpatient Building for the new Dunedin Hospital and Health Minister Simeon Brown says actions have been taken to get the cost overruns under control.

Childhood immunisations are now being delivered at a Whānau Āwhina Plunket site in Whāngarei, with other regions soon to also provide the new service. The Plunket Morningside clinic is the first of up ...

New Zealand’s strong commitment to the rights of disabled people has continued with the response to an important United Nations report, Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston has announced. Of the ...

From today, Plunket in Whāngarei will be offering childhood immunisations – the first of up to 27 sites nationwide, Health Minister Simeon Brown says. The investment of $1 million into the pilot, ...

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