Two years after its inception, the Southern DHB’s National Bowel Screening Programme has already detected 177 cases of bowel cancer across the district. A further 1267 people…
District health boards will be slashed and new government health agencies created in a massive overhaul of the health system. The government has released its final Health…
The closest ever look at the country’s hospitals reveals many intensive care units, operating theatres and emergency departments are in “poor or very poor” shape.The government is…
Health funding of $78.9 million is heading south after the Budget 2020 announcement. Over four years this will provide the Southern District Health Board with an extra…
A famous song from 1961 by The Tokens has made Invercargill’s WellSouth team YouTube stars. Making a Covid-19 dance video out of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ -…
Up to 400 people could die from cancer if hospitals don't catch up quickly enough after the lockdown, the Cancer Society says. It was basing its analysis…
District health boards say that by using digital technology, they have processed thousands of outpatient appointments that would have been cancelled during the lockdown. Waitematā has extended…
Planning is now well underway for a return to more health care services, as we move from Alert Level 4 to Alert Level 3 next week Chris…
Watch Sam Chui get the first-hand experience of how airliners are cleaned and disinfected between flights. Last week, I was shown by Etihad Airways how they clean…
Ministry of Health has confirmed the first Invercargill case of Coronavirus, the person returned from overseas and has been quarantined. No need to panic, use common sense…
