Health & Wellbeing

Two new trustees of the Southland Warm Homes Trust visited local delivery partner Awarua Synergy this week as part of their induction programme. Councillor Lisa TouMcNaughton from Invercargill City Council and Councillor Donna Bruce from Gore District Council toured the Awarua Synergy office to see firsthand how warm homes programmes

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Youthline Southland has closed its Invercargill office after 50 years of serving the local community, with operations now handled through a national support model. The office shut its doors last Friday following a year-long review by the Southland board, which examined the changing landscape of remote mental health services and

Hospice South's volunteer team has been recognised with a Minister of Health Volunteer Award, taking out the Community NGO category at a ceremony held at Parliament. The award acknowledges the contribution of more than 400 volunteers who collectively provided over 46,500 hours of service in the past

Parents in Invercargill and across New Zealand will soon have easier and cheaper access to treatment for their children's common health conditions, with community pharmacists set to offer expanded services from June. Health Minister Simeon Brown and Associate Health Minister David Seymour announced the proposal, which aims to

Health New Zealand is reviewing healthcare delivery on Stewart Island after a survey revealed serious concerns about the cost and difficulty of accessing medical care. The island has been without its own GP for at least a decade, relying instead on a nurse practitioner and two clinical nurse specialists based

Health New Zealand has axed hundreds of old websites in a major consolidation effort, claiming savings of more than $21 million. The national health agency inherited 344 websites when it replaced the country's 20 district health boards in 2022. These included condition-specific sites like "death docs"

Strong demand for specialist dementia care in Southland has seen Enliven Southland’s expanded Iona dementia unit reach full capacity within its first year, underlining the urgent need for more psychogeriatric beds across the region. The six additional beds, introduced in March last year, were quickly taken up. Within the