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Lower survival rates can indicate late diagnosis, or poorer treatment after diagnosis. Seven out of 10 lung cancers could be curable if caught early. Southern DHB had the worst one-year survival rate, at 34.2 per cent, compared to 46.9 per cent at top-performing Counties Manukau DHB. That was the difference between life and death for 54 Southern patients diagnosed from 2015-2017. Patients in the West Coast, Southern, Lakes and Waikato DHB areas had worse survival rates at one, two and three...

Press Release – Health Informatics HiNZ announced the Fellowship Programme at a networking event in Auckland on November 19. The programme recognises health informatics leaders who demonstrate “significant digital and data achievement and contributions, leadership and service for the health and disability sector of Aotearoa New Zealand”. The HiNZ board identified the founding fellows who have a significant legacy of service and leadership in health informatics. These fellows will be award...

HiNZ announced the Fellowship Programme at a networking event in Auckland on November 19. The programme recognises health informatics leaders who demonstrate “significant digital and data achievement and contributions, leadership and service for the health and disability sector of Aotearoa New Zealand”. The HiNZ board identified the founding fellows who have a significant legacy of service and leadership in health informatics. These fellows will be awarded their certificates at the Auckland...

Southern District Health Board chief executive officer Chris Fleming said patients were being treated by the Canterbury District Health Board while active recruiting continued. This had led to increasing resources going towards managing patients in ICU and transferring them to Christchurch for surgery. “If theres ever been a time of a collective South Island service, we are living in it,” Fleming said. Chief medical officer Dr Nigel Millar said neurosurgery was a major skill shortage in...

Robyn Edie/Stuff Southern District Health Board Chief medical officer Dr Nigel Millar, pictured here at Southland Hospital, says staff have been raising practical suggestions – like running blood tests earlier in the day – to move patients through the hospital faster. The Southland Hospital emergency department sees 86 per cent more patients than Dunedin, despite the former serving a population 46 per cent smaller. The hospital’s overstretched emergency department is one of the aspects a...

Millar said burnout was a real challenge in health services, particularly in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. “It [..] is accentuated when people feel unable to meet the needs of patients. This is then compounded when the organisation does not appear to understand or respond to the pressure people are under,” he said. Noting the boards recent challenges meeting elective surgery needs, Millar said a new Patient Flow Taskforce would work with clinicians to understand the problems, and s...

His GP told Stuff, three months ahead of his first operation, that severe osteoarthritis in his hips were causing him considerable pain and disability and she “would have hoped he would have had his surgery by now” as his condition was deteriorating. And the Nationwide Health and Disability Advocacy Service wrote to the SDHB about the same time, saying Stark had experienced two delays in receiving surgery and his extreme pain had significantly affected his life. Having finally received ...

With new, more contagious strains of Covid-19 in New Zealand being detected in managed isolation, the board was increasingly concerned the public was not using the QR codes. “Cases of the new strains of Covid-19 in the community could be difficult to control, so we need to try to get as many people as possible to scan QR codes, to enable us to trace and isolate close contacts as quickly as possible should this happen,” the letter says. “Ultimately, if we are able to trace and isolate i...

Southern DHB investigating how man died from Covid-19 at home (Photo / File) Wed, 30 Dec 2020, 2:38PM The Southern District Health Board is investigating how an Invercargill man known to have Covid-19 was able to die at home in New Zealands only community death from the disease. The death of Alister Peter Brookland, known as Barney, at his Kingswell home on April 14, was one of 66 serious adverse events, including four deaths, reported by the health board in 2019-20. Brookla...

Covid 19 coronavirus: Investigation into Invercargill home death 29 Dec, 2020 09:32 PM 3 minutes to read A timeline of Coronavirus in 2020. Graphic / Phil Welch / Nathan Meek Otago Daily Times The Southern District Health Board is investigating how an Invercargill man known to have Covid-19 was able to die at home in New Zealands only community death from the disease. The death of Alister Peter Brookland, known as Barney, at his Kingswell home on April 14, was one of 66 serious adverse events, ...