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Health professionals are being left with no choice but to carry on in the face of a dire kidney healthcare situation. There's a push for urgent action, as new findings show all 15 of our kidney dialysis regions are being impacted by capacity constraints, too few dialysis treatment chairs and a lack of physical infrastructure. Most regions report their current staffing levels can't meet demand. Te Whatu Ora Southern DHB's Professor Rob Walker told Mike Hosking kidney disease is not a popular topic. He says it doesn't get the publicity other areas of healthcare do and under-funding of the sector is a long-standing problem. LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

TikTok could be the Southern DHB's saving grace.The DHB has posted a video on the platform largely used by Gen Z-ers, showcasing the area in a bid to attract much-needed midwives.Southern DHB Recruitment Manager Milair Ryalls told Mike Hosking over the weekend they received four inquiries from international midwives.She says they have a team of international nurses putting together another recruitment video.“This one has had above-average click-through rate, which means that they've actually clicked through to our advert. So it's certainly working, so we're working on a nursing one.”LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Outgoing CEO of Southern DHB, Chris Fleming wanted to send an email to all nurses thanking them for their hard work - but he didnt write it and he didnt send it What are the dangers of email and how do you recover when it all goes horribly wrong? Shelly Davies is the founder of the school of unprofessional writing - she has a few tips for us.

When more than 1500 people in Queenstown and Central Lakes were vaccinated with a dud vaccine that had been stored incorrectly, it took Southern DHB three months to contact the people who weren’t as immunised as they thought they were. We spoke to one women, a business owner and mother, who was going about life with her vaccine pass thinking she was double jabbed - and then heard from National’s health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The fears of a new measles outbreak have health authorities ramping up calls for people to get vaccinated.   This includes Southern DHB that's urging kiwis to get their measles, mumps and rubella vaccines as the borders open up.   National Immunisation Advisory Centre Director Nikki Turner told Mike Hosking take-up of many non-Covid related vaccines has reduced lately.   “Communities just need to support them and remind them how urgent the issue is, this is an international problem.” LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This year's Orientation Week at Otago University is like no other, with hundreds of students stuck isolating due to Covid. The southern city recorded its first community case of the latest outbreak two weeks ago with two student flat parties pinged as the first locations of interest. Now there are nearly 600 in the Southern DHB area. Students say the reality of isolation and Omicron is kicking in, with partying put on the backburner. Tess Brunton reports.

The manager of a Dunedin Covid-19 testing centre is calling for more rapid antigen tests, with the region experiencing the third largest outbreak in the country. The Southern DHB yesterday recorded 455 cases, more than double any other region aside from Auckland. It trails only Auckland and Waikato in active cases. At Dunedin's Te Kaika testing centre in St Kilda, 2.5 tests are being taken per minute, and lines have extended for hours in recent days. The manukura/chief executive, Albie Laurence, says on Wednesday they were able to start offering rapid antigen tests because the labs processing PCR tests are swamped. He told RNZ reporter Jordan Bond they can't offer the home-administered rapid tests to everyone, because they don't have enough. Ministry of Health figures show there are 6.9 million rapid tests available.

People against Covid-19 vaccines and vaccination mandates are using a leaked email address to abuse Countdown supermarket. The email was set up to seek staff feedback on a proposal to require all the grocer's employees to be vaccinated by mid-January. One angry message to the supermarket was from a Southern DHB board member who told RNZ she was using her role to highlight the unfairness of mandates. Reporter Jake McKee has this exclusive story.

The race to get to 90 percent of Aotearoa vaccinated against Covid-19 continues, but people are being reminded it's a marathon and not a sprint. Only five District Health Boards have hit the milestone for first jabs: Capital and Coast, Auckland, Waitemata, Canterbury - and just yesterday, the Southern DHB. Others are tantalisingly close, with just a few thousand jabs to go. Jake McKee reports.

Southern DHB is preparing for the worst for next year if Covid-19 becomes endemic in the community. The DHB says Covid is the single biggest risk to both the community and itself, saying it could overload the health system. The region is celebrating a milestone today, hitting a 90 percent rate for first doses of the Pfizer vaccine. At a meeting today, board members discussed the latest modelling and what it means for their community. Tess Brunton has more.

A Southland surgeon has been twice declined twice an emergency spot in MIQ, forcing his patients to either travel to other hospitals or delay surgery. Dr Jim Faherty is the clinical director of the women's health unit at the Southland Hospital. In August, he travelled to the United States to support his father who was given six months to live. His mother died earlier in 2021.  He hasn't been able to get back, causing trouble for his work back home. "The consultants that are there [in Southland] don't do some of the surgeries that I am able to perform at Southland Hospital, and consultants that are working for locums don't typically cover elective surgery. "Anybody who was requiring some of the surgeries that I do have had to either wait and have their surgeries postponed, or they've been required to go to other district health boards to have their surgeries performed away from their family and whānau and support." Before he left, Dr Faherty spoke with his managers, telling them he should be eligible for emergency MIQ allocation. But in the past month, he's been declined twice for emergency allocations, unsuccessfully appealed those decisions, and failed with the lottery system.  "If I'm not able to get back, we're going down to a 1.8 service to cover five FTE and it's difficult to keep the unit open, provide obstetric emergency coverage. "Our midwives are already very taxed, there's a national shortage of midwives. So, everybody's sort of working to cover and it's quite difficult." His absence will force the department he leads to will drop from five full time equivalent staff to just 1.8 this month. His two applications and a subsequent appeal, were declined because he didn't meet the eligibility criteria under the critical health worker category. "For the first time, in some aspect of ignorance, I applied on the 6th with the flight scheduled to leave the States on the 11th expecting a relatively rapid turnaround in approval, I received notification that my application had been declined on the 13th. Then on my second application I applied within 14 days and I found out the night before [the flight]." When asked about the Dr Faherty's situation, Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins says he can't discuss and doesn't review individual cases. "I am looking at the number of health workers that we are needing to get into the country at the moment," he said. "I'm taking a good close look at that because there's several 100 potential health workers that are currently waiting to see whether there are things that we can do to support that, because ultimately we need them in our health workforce." Dr Faherty is waiting to hear back about his third application - in this one, he's applied under the category allowing New Zealander's to visit a terminally ill family member. The Southern DHB says they're very keen for Dr Faherty to return as soon as possible.

A Southland surgeon has been twice declined twice an emergency spot in MIQ, forcing his patients to either travel to other hospitals or delay surgery. Dr Jim Faherty is the clinical director of the women's health unit at the Southland Hospital. In August, he travelled to the United States to support his father who was given six months to live. His mother died earlier in 2021.  He hasn't been able to get back, causing trouble for his work back home. "The consultants that are there [in Southland] don't do some of the surgeries that I am able to perform at Southland Hospital, and consultants that are working for locums don't typically cover elective surgery. "Anybody who was requiring some of the surgeries that I do have had to either wait and have their surgeries postponed, or they've been required to go to other district health boards to have their surgeries performed away from their family and whānau and support." Before he left, Dr Faherty spoke with his managers, telling them he should be eligible for emergency MIQ allocation. But in the past month, he's been declined twice for emergency allocations, unsuccessfully appealed those decisions, and failed with the lottery system.  "If I'm not able to get back, we're going down to a 1.8 service to cover five FTE and it's difficult to keep the unit open, provide obstetric emergency coverage. "Our midwives are already very taxed, there's a national shortage of midwives. So, everybody's sort of working to cover and it's quite difficult." His absence will force the department he leads to will drop from five full time equivalent staff to just 1.8 this month. His two applications and a subsequent appeal, were declined because he didn't meet the eligibility criteria under the critical health worker category. "For the first time, in some aspect of ignorance, I applied on the 6th with the flight scheduled to leave the States on the 11th expecting a relatively rapid turnaround in approval, I received notification that my application had been declined on the 13th. Then on my second application I applied within 14 days and I found out the night before [the flight]." When asked about the Dr Faherty's situation, Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins says he can't discuss and doesn't review individual cases. "I am looking at the number of health workers that we are needing to get into the country at the moment," he said. "I'm taking a good close look at that because there's several 100 potential health workers that are currently waiting to see whether there are things that we can do to support that, because ultimately we need them in our health workforce." Dr Faherty is waiting to hear back about his third application - in this one, he's applied under the category allowing New Zealander's to visit a terminally ill family member. The Southern DHB says they're very keen for Dr Faherty to return as soon as possible.

A Dunedin nurse who's on his way to help fight Covid-19 in Auckland says he never hesitated to step up. Southern DHB infection prevention and control specialist Mike O'Brien is one of more than 100 nurses who've put their hands up as the city's health system is stretched and asking for help from around the country. There are 42 patients in hospital, with DHBs scrambling to build negative pressure rooms and Covid-19 wards to keep up. One of Mike O'Brien's jobs will be will help make sure they new areas are up to scratch and to help keep staff safe with good procedures and PPE. He told health correspondent Rowan Quinn he wants to do everything he can to send Delta packing.

Patients are at risk of harm as a shortage of nurses on Southern District Health Board wards forces some to ration their care. The problem was unearthed as part of a review into its safe-staffing regime. Otago-Southland reporter Tess Brunton has more.

Rural communities in the south worry they may be left behind during the Covid-19 vaccine roll out. There are currently no vaccine clinics operating on Stewart Island, nor in remote centres such as Te Anau, Ranfurly and Roxburgh. The Southern DHB says more clinics will be opened by the end of July in those areas so no one is more than an hour's travel from the nearest clinic. People in group three - those over 65 or at greater risk from Covid-19 - have been travelling up to 170 kilometres to get their shots. Less than 20 percent of group three in the district have received a first dose and less than 10 percent are fully inoculated. Central Otago Mayor Tim Cadogan told reporter Timothy Brown, residents of his district are remaining patient at the moment, though that could change.

Rural communities in the south worry they may be left behind during the Covid-19 vaccine roll out. There are currently no vaccine clinics operating on Stewart Island, nor in remote centres such as Te Anau, Ranfurly and Roxburgh. The Southern DHB says more clinics will be opened by the end of July in those areas so no one is more than an hour's travel from the nearest clinic. People in group three - those over 65 or at greater risk from Covid-19 - have been travelling up to 170 kilometres to get their shots. Less than 20 percent of group three in the district have received a first dose and less than 10 percent are fully inoculated. Central Otago Mayor Tim Cadogan told reporter Timothy Brown, residents of his district are remaining patient at the moment, though that could change.

A group of doctors, researchers and cancer care campaigners are calling for a public inquiry into what they say is Southern DHB's failing colonoscopy service. A scathing article by Professor Brian Cox and Doctor Phil Bagshaw in the Medical Journal a fortnight ago accused the Ministry of Health of allowing the DHB to join the national bowel screening programme before it was ready. They claimed lives have been lost or shortened as a result. As Timothy Brown reports, the pair - along with others - now believe the only way to address their concerns is through a public inquiry.

A group of doctors, researchers and cancer care campaigners are calling for a public inquiry into what they say is Southern DHB's failing colonoscopy service. A scathing article by Professor Brian Cox and Doctor Phil Bagshaw in the Medical Journal a fortnight ago accused the Ministry of Health of allowing the DHB to join the national bowel screening programme before it was ready. They claimed lives have been lost or shortened as a result. As Timothy Brown reports, the pair - along with others - now believe the only way to address their concerns is through a public inquiry.

Stress, exhaustion and burn out is affecting one in two senior doctors according to a new survey from the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, and there has bee no improvement in the past five years. 2100 senior doctors took part in the survey. Half of the respondents reported burnout- which affects women doctors more than men. Radiation oncologists, rural hospital specialists, respiratory physicians and emergency department specialists recorded the highest burnout levels. The Southern DHB recorded the highest levels of burnout and a significant increase on the last survey. Kathryn talks with Director of Policy and Research for the ASMS, Dr Charlotte Chambers.

Stress, exhaustion and burn out is affecting one in two senior doctors according to a new survey from the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, and there has bee no improvement in the past five years. 2100 senior doctors took part in the survey. Half of the respondents reported burnout- which affects women doctors more than men. Radiation oncologists, rural hospital specialists, respiratory physicians and emergency department specialists recorded the highest burnout levels. The Southern DHB recorded the highest levels of burnout and a significant increase on the last survey. Kathryn talks with Director of Policy and Research for the ASMS, Dr Charlotte Chambers.

An oncologist from Southern District Health Board says cancer patients are suffering and dying because they are missing out on vital scans such as MRIs. His scathing comments in an email to the DHB were leaked to RNZ by someone else. We have chosen not to name the specialist. Otago-Southland reporter, Timothy Brown, has more.

An oncologist from Southern District Health Board says cancer patients are suffering and dying because they are missing out on vital scans such as MRIs. His scathing comments in an email to the DHB were leaked to RNZ by someone else. We have chosen not to name the specialist. Otago-Southland reporter, Timothy Brown, has more.

A team of researchers say the Southern DHB should never have been granted permission to join the National Bowel Screening Programme in 2018. An investigation using the Official Information Act found that permission was granted prematurely, without following due process and in spite of concerns raised by Ministry of Health staff about the DHB's capacity. The paper published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today outlines how the decision was made at a a time when the Southern DHB was even struggling to provide colonoscopy services for symptomatic patients and would be unprepared to deal with the increase in demand that screening would cause. Kathryn speaks with Phil Bagshaw, chairman of the Canterbury Charity Hospital Trust.

A team of researchers say the Southern DHB should never have been granted permission to join the National Bowel Screening Programme in 2018. An investigation using the Official Information Act found that permission was granted prematurely, without following due process and in spite of concerns raised by Ministry of Health staff about the DHB's capacity. The paper published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today outlines how the decision was made at a a time when the Southern DHB was even struggling to provide colonoscopy services for symptomatic patients and would be unprepared to deal with the increase in demand that screening would cause. Kathryn speaks with Phil Bagshaw, chairman of the Canterbury Charity Hospital Trust.

Now that Jacinda Ardern has retreated from the headlines because she doesn't need to blow up the economy to save the country, we've been seeing other issues and Government ministers taking the limelight. Today it's Andrew Little whose mission, should he wish to accept it, is to completely re-design the health sector.  No small task. In fact, a huge task which, if it happens, would be transformative. But as we have found from this government, talking about transformation and actually transforming something are two quite different things. Today's mini debate has been whether GP visits should be fully funded by the government. It would remove some iniquities that exist in the current system that dissuade doctors from opening surgeries in the country or poor regions.  But at the same time why should we be paying the doctor's bills of the rich?  And of course it would be really, really expensive even if it did prevent people getting really, really sick.By the way, quietly, it's also really socialist. And here's the thing with this left leaning Labour Government.  They're getting braver at getting their hands on stuff. When Andrew Little announced the end of DHBs and the creation of one entity to rule the health world called Health New Zealand, I expected a backlash from the right leaning conservative voters of New Zealand.  I thought they'd be leaping up and down about Soviet style centralisation. Instead, many cheered.  I guess they saw the multitude of DHBs we currently have as a manifestation of big government and to cull them to one showed a desire to streamline the beast and make it more efficient. But the day after the announcement, the government casually mentioned that few DHB workers would lose their jobs. It's very reminiscent of the creation of the Super City, with the amalgamation of councils where we didn't see efficiency gains. Instead, lots of little government bodies we will now have one very big one. In Wellington. So far, so Kremlin. It's also been sold as the end of postcode healthcare.  But I find that very difficult to believe.  Will a bureaucrat in Wellington really solve the problems at, say, Lumsden Birthing Centre better than a similar bureaucrat at the Southern DHB in Invercargill?Another review released this week said that Fish and Game was big government, rife with governance, and proposed cutting it's 12 districts to six.  A Local Government review is now underway and seems intent in finding aspects of local governance that can come under central government control. This is turning out to be a government who wants to centralise and put control in the hand of Wellington bureaucrats who will tell us what to do because they know best. Which after all shouldn't be a surprise. This is a Labour Government. 

The Former Dunedin Mayor, Dave Cull, is being remembered as a unifying voice, who sought a middle way, -  and as an advocate for Māori, young people, and other minorities. Cull served as mayor for three terms from 2010 until 2019, and was elected President of Local Government New Zealand in 2017. He stepped down at the last local body elections to run for the Southern DHB and to spend more time with his family. The 71-year-old  was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2020. Richard Thomson served as a city councillor when Cull was mayor. He spoke to Susie Ferguson.  

The Former Dunedin Mayor, Dave Cull, is being remembered as a unifying voice, who sought a middle way, -  and as an advocate for Māori, young people, and other minorities. Cull served as mayor for three terms from 2010 until 2019, and was elected President of Local Government New Zealand in 2017. He stepped down at the last local body elections to run for the Southern DHB and to spend more time with his family. The 71-year-old  was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2020. Richard Thomson served as a city councillor when Cull was mayor. He spoke to Susie Ferguson.  

Carolyn talks to Gail and John, who have been working on the newly released Disability Strategy for the Southern DHB, about how this policy will benefit consumers, especially those with low vision.