NEWS HR
January 22, 2018
The Woodhaugh Hospital and Rest Home in North Dunedin has been evacuated after a fire in one of its bedrooms.
January 19, 2018
The second case of myrtle rust has been found at a New Plymouth retirement village. The fungal disease, which attacks various species of plants in the myrtle family, such as pōhutukawa, mānuka and rātā, has been found at the Summerset Mountain View retirement village in New Plymouth.
January 19, 2018
Tenants of an Auckland state home, unhappy with building work in their backyard, “threatened to shoot” the social housing agency’s contractors. Tensions rose after builders removed the tenants’ chicken coop, a trampoline and a clothesline to make way for a Housing New Zealand home on the back section. The confrontation, detailed in a tenancy tribunal finding published online in December, came about after builders offered to replace the clothesline and the tenant responded by threatening to shoot. Work was immediately suspended for a fortnight, until the tenant calmed down.
January 9, 2018
Presbyterian Support Organisation chief executive Gillian Bremner is to step down as head of Presbyterian Support Otago. PSO’s first woman chief executive, Mrs Bremner has held the position for 24 years.
January 8, 2018
A Dunedin Hospital senior doctor was paid $408,000 in a severance payment in 2016-17, it has emerged. The figure was released yesterday in the Southern District Health Board’s annual report. The second highest termination settlement was $178,000. To allay speculation the biggest payout was that of former chief executive Carole Heatly, the DHB said it was for a departing clinician. ‘‘We are unable to share details of individual employment matters. However, we can confirm that the $408,000 payment does not relate to any management position within the DHB. ‘‘The payment was in line with a nationally agreed collective employment agreement terms and conditions,’’ DHB chief executive Chris Fleming said in a statement.
December 18, 2017
Lester Levy has resigned as chairman of all three Auckland district health boards.
December 18, 2017
Andrew Blair, Board Chair of Capital & Coast and Hutt Valley DHBs, has announced the appointment of Dr Ashley Bloomfield as the Acting Chief Executive (CE) for Capital & Coast DHB.
December 13, 2017
Mary Gamble, a former Dunedin midwife and outspoken health board member, has died. The “midwife to thousands of Dunedin families, and defiant ex-district health board member” had had a long battle with cancer.
