Health & Wellbeing

Certain areas of Invercargill such as bus stops, carparks and on the footpaths outside education facilities could all soon be smoke and vape free. The Invercargill City Council is reviewing its Smokefree policy and although the current one includes vaping as well, the wording will change to make it clearer.

A coroner has found Corrections staff skipped a mandatory risk assessment before an Invercargill Prison inmate took his own life — and that a history of similar failures dates back nearly a decade. Nukuroa "Nuku" Strange, 30, died in his cell on August 4, 2022. He had attempted suicide

More than 30,000 New Zealanders with type 2 diabetes will get easier access to four blood sugar medicines from September 1, after Pharmac widened its funding criteria. The medicines — empagliflozin, empagliflozin with metformin, liraglutide and dulaglutide — will now be funded for anyone with type 2 diabetes whose blood sugar

Hawthorndale Care Village has appointed a clinical leader with more than two decades of aged care experience to its board, as the Invercargill facility moves into what it describes as its next stage of development. Jill Smith joins as a trustee, bringing a background spanning aged residential care, hospice, community

A Winton man with kidney cancer waited nearly seven months for surgery after his operation was cancelled without explanation — and nobody at Southland Hospital told him why. David Evans undergoes surgery every three to four months to cut away the cancer. His January procedure at Southland Hospital went ahead. The

SIT's nursing school has spent close to half a million dollars refurbishing its clinical suite — and the result is a training ward that looks and functions like the real thing. The Southern Institute of Technology School of Nursing officially reopened the upgraded space last week, expanding the clinical

The first structural steel was installed yesterday, marking the moment the inpatient building begins to rise above ground after months of foundation work largely hidden from public view. It is a significant build by any measure. The inpatient building covers 72,000 square metres — the largest component of the entire

It’s so positive to see Invercargill and Southland community pharmacies receiving a funding boost to help more local people access timely healthcare closer to home. From Riverton, to South City, local people rely on their community pharmacies – they’re so often the first port of call for advice and