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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 years. Only 6.7 per cent of West Coast patients survived three years – almost one quarter of Auck...

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 awarded their certificates at the Auckland Digital Health Leadership Summit on March 26. HiNZ board membe...

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 Digital Health Leadership Summit on March 26. HiNZ board member Karen Blake says, “a small workin...

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 there's 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 New Zealand. The country had not trained its own neurosurgeons in the past 10 years, he said. Me...

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 new Southern District Health Board taskforce is reviewing as it looks for ways to ease pressure ami...