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A further 22 allied health staff (medical physicist, sonographer, anaesthetic technicians, medical imaging technologists and physiotherapists) were required throughout Southland and Otago. This comes as the board has decided to invest an initial $2 million to grow its oncology workforce by 16. The information will be presented to the board’s Hospital Advisory Committee on Monday. Board chair Pete Hodgson said the decision to invest in the oncology workforce was a start, and that more investment would be needed in the future. The board had been under-supplying in various aspects of its cancer services, he said, and the initial investment would help address immediate shortfalls.
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Wānaka mum Kristi James with husband Michael Coonrod and baby Makail James after Makail was born on the floor of the midwife s office in 2019. There is already a primary birthing unit at Lakes District Hospital in Queenstown. According to an Otago Daily Times report the total cost of the units had risen from $173,000 to $648,000. Southern DHB chairman Pete Hodgson said the board would now need to develop a business case for submission to the Ministry of Health’s capital investment committee. The health board will also request proposals for service providers for the units in Wānaka and Clyde.
The wait list to see a radiation oncologist has reached 157, the highest it has ever been and more than twice the board’s ideal wait list. The worst in the country. In the first quarter of this year fewer than half the patients referred as urgent because of high suspicion of cancer received their first treatment within 62 days, as they should have according to the Health Ministry. Access to scans is a large part of the problem and how hearts must sink with the report that a business case for a new, additional MRI scanner is expected – in December. New board chairman Pete Hodgson is emerging as a flinty hand at the tiller (to the extent that this could be said of any health board chair) and his reaction plain impatience: this was intolerable, and if it’s evident a second MRI machine is needed “then buy the thing’’.