Health & Wellbeing

The Ready for Living Garden Drive ran tours through Gore's Main Gardens and Bannerman Park — then 38 residents, aged 65 to 90, stayed for the music and dancing.

Southland has been left without a permanent full-time urologist, with Health New Zealand transferring patients as far as Christchurch and paying locums $3000 a day to plug the gap — while internal documents show bosses rated the situation as an "extreme" risk and warned of the potential "collapse

Sir John Kirwan is bringing the Bledisloe Cup to Invercargill today — and a couple of young players could end up at Eden Park because of it. Mitey, the children's mental health education organisation, is running two events at separate venues in the city this Monday September 28 as

Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds says it's a breakthrough that cervical screening will be free for all eligible Invercargill and Southland women from March next year. "That means that all women aged 25 to 69 will be able to access cervical screening without paying a charge - which

Enrolments in Southern Institute of Technology's postgraduate nursing programmes have jumped around 85 percent since 2020, and the people behind the growth say it shows no sign of slowing. Postgraduate Programme Manager Jane Elder has been at SIT's School of Nursing since 2019 and took on

JUST LET DADS DAD If you want him to step up — you might have to stop telling him how. I'm not sure why I thought it would work, but it was my way of making sure my husband knew what to do. I was preparing for the birth

Southlanders are about to get faster access to specialist care, cancer treatment, and elective surgery after the new Dunedin Hospital outpatient building was officially opened on Friday. The $440 million, five-storey facility is the first completed stage of the long-delayed Dunedin Hospital rebuild — a project that has spent years grinding

I'm Katie, and I'm MAD, M-A-D. I mean, I have self-diagnosed Mother's Attention Deficit. More specifically, a unique and rare branch called CAD — Cooking Attention Deficit. Because of my condition, I've been almost entirely banned from the kitchen. The task causes procrastination