Tag Archives: Southern District Health Board
by Elizabeth | July 5, 2017 · 1:14 pm
How To See and Be Seen : 1. sit on the floor 2. do not lie #SDHB
The Dunedin Hospital eye department's throughput is commendable despite the lack of chairs and wait space provided by the fat cat, high fee-earning Team of Commissioners led by lawyer Kathy Grant….
As a user of the department's services, there's been no impediment to my eye treatment and monitoring at any time. I have never had to sit on the floor, nor would I even contemplate doing so —silly Sheep!
The staff were exactly right to complain to their union.
### ODT Online Wed, 5 Jul 2017
Elderly patients forced to sit on floor
Older patients were forced to sit on the floor while waiting for an appointment in the crisis-hit eye department at Dunedin Hospital, prompting a complaint from staff to their union. Public Service Association organiser Julie Morton said the lack of adequate waiting space was a health and safety issue. "There are frequently not enough seats in the waiting room to accommodate those waiting, and they have to sit on the floor," Mrs Morton wrote to the Southern District Health Board last month. Some of the patients who had to sit on the floor were older people.
D'oh, Ms Kathy Grant doesn't believe in the value of Democracy in the Southern Region. Does the Southern community want the non-egalitarian, fryable Ms Grant to serve out her term to 2019.
Need for elected health board role downplayed
The "truly unique" arrangements at Southern District Health Board will not adversely affect the Dunedin Hospital rebuild, commissioner Kathy Grant says. The Government is planning a hospital redevelopment potentially worth more than $1billion, and there are no elected representatives to influence the project because the board was sacked. Mrs Grant said the SDHB's relationship with the Ministry of Health was no different than if an elected board was in place. "I'm not sure what additional dimension the existence of a traditional board would necessarily bring to that relationship." […] The Otago Daily Times has been told by a contact, who would not be named, that the Cabinet would consider three options outlined [for the proposed new hospital] in an indicative business case, the most expensive of which costs more than $1 billion. After that decision, the rebuild governance group and the ministry would look at where to build and whether land needed to be acquired.
*Image: dailymail.co.uk – article: Why are my blinking eyes so sore and watery?
Filed under Business, Democracy, Dunedin, Economics, Finance, Health, Health & Safety, Hospital, Infrastructure, Media, Name, New Zealand, People, Politics, Project management, Public interest, SDHB, Travesty
Tagged as Commissioners, Dunedin, Dunedin Hospital, Eye department, Eye health, New hospital, Opthalmology, Patients, SDHB, Southern District Health Board, Southern Region, Waiting rooms
SDHB change management: 59 roles proposed to go
Sat, 29 Apr 2017 at 6:37 p.m.
### ODT Online Fri, 28 Apr 2017
Roles dumped in SDHB proposal
The roles of chief operating officer (COO) and deputy chief executive will be dumped in a sweeping management restructure proposal unveiled at the Southern District Health Board. In the formal document released yesterday, chief executive Chris Fleming said a new director of specialist services would replace the COO role. The proposed restructuring would not slim the executive leadership team. Its number would increase by one to 13 (including the chief executive), but there is quite a bit of change in the make-up of the roles. The brunt of job losses would be borne at the next two levels of management.
Restructure proposal appears to break up a joint decision-making model which involves senior doctors and nurses.
Sat, 29 Apr 2017
Proposal devastates nurses
Nurses are "devastate" by the proposed restructuring at the Southern District Health Board. New Zealand Nurses Organisation Dunedin organiser Lorraine Lobb said the proposal removed budgetary and operational control from nursing leadership. There would be fewer nurse management roles, and those who remained would have less say in decision-making, Mrs Lobb said. "We're quite devastated by this proposal. We're all about safe staffing, [and that] requires nursing leadership," she said. The proposal would see a net loss of 23 management positions. It was unclear how many were nursing roles. […] The new chief nursing and midwifery officer would have no control over budgets as their underlings would only report to them on professional matters, she said. […] The proposal also removes operational responsibilities from the board's top doctor, the chief medical officer. On operational matters, medical directors would report to the director of specialist services, rather than the chief medical officer.
█ SDHB to consider submissions before announcing the final structure in June.
8.4.17 Questions over Council's Dunedin Hospital SOS campaign
6.4.17 ODT editor comments strongly #tick —Dunedin Hospital rebuild
27.3.17 Site Notice #DunedinHospital
26.2.17 Dunedin Hospital Redevelopment
6.2.17 Let the Ombudsman recommend for democracy at SDHB
24.1.17 SDHB/Govt : Physio Pool GRIEF
9.1.17 Audit NZ admonishes commissioner Grant and SDHB #Health
18.12.16 DCC set to take away CBD car parks without Economic Impact research
█ For more, enter the terms *hospital*, *sdhb* and *swann* in the search box at right.
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Tagged as Administration, Change management, Employment, Health, Health Services, Hospitals, Job losses, Management roles, Otago Southland, Redundancy, Restructuring, SDHB, Service delivery, Southern District Health Board
Questions over Council's Dunedin Hospital SOS campaign
Received from Diane Yeldon
Fri, 7 April 2017 at 4:06 p.m.
What's wrong with the DCC Dunedin Hospital SOS Campaign?
If you clear away all the smoke from the party-political bluster, bickering and name–calling arising over this campaign, has the Dunedin City Council really done anything out of order? Or were some councillors, in fact, a majority, just trying to do their best for the people of Dunedin?
Unfortunately, the road to hell can be paved with good intentions. A council communication cannot be a political advertisement.
The Electoral Act more or less defines a political advertisement as anything which persuades or encourages voters to vote in a particular way. But our democratic rights to participate in government decision-making are not limited to voting once every three years. Citizens also have the right to petition Government, make submissions to select committees and other public authorities and deliberative bodies, and lobby MPs and Government Ministers.
If local councillors had been presented with a motion which proposed the following : that the Council encourages and persuades voters to choose candidate A, they would have rightly been horrified and would have rejected it.
In comparison, a single, short and final paragraph in a council motion which proposes that the Council should ask for public support for ONLY its own preferred position on a central government decision, and that people make such views known to central government, looks harmless and is quite likely to pass unnoticed – and, in fact, did. But it is just as political. It encourages people to use their democratic rights in a particular way.
The council staff should have alerted councillors that this was the case and that such political activism was beyond the proper scope of any local body. The difference in wording may be subtle but the democratic principles involved are significant and far-reaching.
Dunedin City Council's Dunedin Hospital SOS petition states:
"I demand that central government redevelops Dunedin Hospital in the centre of the city. The government must also make a clear commitment to retain a top flight teaching hospital for Dunedin and the wider Otago/Southland region.
Save Our Site. Save Our Services."
Petition at the DCC-managed SOS website [framed screenshot]
At the bottom of the webpage, DCC says:
"Dunedin Hospital SOS
The Dunedin City Council ("DCC", "we", "us", or "our") operates, hosts, or manages a number of websites, including DunedinHospitalSOS.nz. This site was created and funded following a Council resolution (21 February 2017) to communicate to Government its complete opposition to a rebuild of Dunedin Hospital outside the central city. It is not a permanent website."
How the petition got off the ground by Council vote (21 February 2017) on the Notice of Motion:
[screenshots – click to enlarge]
DCC Council 21.2.17 Agenda – 15 Notice of Motion Dunedin Hospital Rebuild
DCC Council 21.2.17 Minutes – 15 Notice of Motion Dunedin Hospital Rebuild
The DCC Dunedin Hospital SOS flyer and Facebook campaign cost Ratepayers $7,102 (excl GST). Ratepayers also find themselves footing the bill for a DCC-led SOS media campaign:
ODT Online 8.4.17 [screenshot]
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Tagged as ACC - Frederick St carpark, Aging population, Base hospital, Built environment, CBD and campus, Central city, City parking, Clinical Services, Community health provision, Connectedness, Construction, DCC, DCC political agenda, DCC SOS media campaign, Dunedin, Dunedin City Council, Dunedin Hospital Redevelopment, Health, Hospital, Junior councillors, Medical services, Medical specialties, Michael Woodhouse - National Party List MP, Notice of Morion, ODT editorial, Office of the Auditor-General, Otago Daily Times, Patients and hospital users, Political agendas, Politics, Ratepayer funding, SDHB, Sites, Southern District Health Board, Sustainable health services, Urban design
Site Notice #DunedinHospital
This afternoon David Benson-Pope requested an unreserved apology from the website owner following publication of an image and various comments at a now deleted post concerning the Save Our Hospital campaign that was highlighted in a newspaper story published on 25 March 2017.
The website owner unreservedly apologises to Mr Benson-Pope for the publication of this material and any resulting discomfort or distress it may have caused.
An apology will be emailed to Mr Benson-Pope shortly, copy Sandy Graham, DCC.
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Tagged as ACC - Frederick St carpark, Aging population, Architecture, Base hospital, Built environment, Cadbury, CBD, Central city, City parking, Clinical Services, Clinical Services building, Commissioners, Community health provision, Connectedness, Construction, DCC, Dunedin, Dunedin City Council, Dunedin Hospital Redevelopment, Graham Crombie, Health, Hospital, Hospital staff, Kathy Grant, Medical services, Medical specialties, Michael Swann, Michael Woodhouse - National Party List MP, Minister of Health, NZTA subsidies, Patients and hospital users, Politics, Preparation for hospital downsizing, Public Forum, Richard Thomson, SDHB, SH1 segregated cycleways, Site, Sites, Southern District Health Board, Urban design, Wakari Hospital, Ward Block STRONG, Wards
by Elizabeth | February 26, 2017 · 11:49 pm
Dunedin Hospital Redevelopment
ODT Online public notice:
[SDHB media release]
Public forum chance to learn more about Dunedin Hospital facilities
The public is being given the opportunity to learn more about how Dunedin's new hospital facilities might be configured at an event being held at the end of this month.
A public forum will be held on the evening of Tuesday 28 February to update interested members of the Dunedin community on the redevelopment of Dunedin Hospital.
"The public forum is an opportunity for people to get a better understanding of how we are deciding what facilities we need and where to deliver the best health outcomes for the Southern district. It will provide a great opportunity for people to understand the kinds of issues the team has to find answers for before the architects can complete their work, and the time frames involved in the design and building process," Chair of the Southern Partnership Group Andrew Blair says.
The forum will include a presentation, followed by a question and answer session.
Southern DHB Commissioner Kathy Grant says the forum will give the community an opportunity to learn how the project is about more than just replacing buildings.
"We want to take this opportunity for members of the public to come along and get a better understanding of this exciting project and the opportunity it presents for developing facilities that can support a modern healthcare system capable of addressing the needs of the next 40-50 years."
Further information on the project is available at: http://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/hospital-redevelopment-projects/dunedin-hospital-redevelopment-project
Public forum details
Date: Tuesday 28 February
Location: Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, 419 Gt King Street, Dunedin
SPG Chair Andrew Blair
andrew @blairconsulting.co.nz
SDHB Link
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Tagged as Clinical Services, Construction, Dunedin, Dunedin Hospital Redevelopment, Health, Hospital, Medical services, Public Forum, SDHB, Site, Southern District Health Board, Wards
SDHB/Govt : Physio Pool GRIEF
140 Hanover St [rankedbyreview.co.nz]
Pool upgrade supposed to happen a year ago this month.
### ODT Online Mon, 23 Jan 2017
Grant lost as physio pool work stalls
A $120,000 grant has been pulled from the Dunedin physiotherapy pool upgrade because no-one yet knows when — or even if — it will happen. And the Otago Therapeutic Pool Trust has confirmed a second grant, of $100,000, is subject to an extension review and a decision is awaited.
Pool trust secretary-treasurer Neville Martin […] hopes to know more by June, when the Ministry of Health is expected to release a shortlist of site options for the $300 million Dunedin Hospital rebuild.
"To avoid closure of the pool by the Southern District Health Board, the trust has been required to cover all operating costs since the beginning of 2015." –Neville Martin
2.10.16 WHO says 'heritage rules are too restrictive' —What's their agenda in the Heritage City
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Tagged as 140 Hanover Street - Dunedin, Building upgrade, Disabilities, Donations, Dunedin, Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin Physio Pool, Governance, Hydrotherapy, Otago Therapeutic Pool, Otago Therapeutic Pool Trust, OTPT, Parking, Physiotherapy, Physiotherapy pool, Plans, Public pool facilities, Recovery, SDHB, Seismic strengthening, Site development, Southern District Health Board, University of Otago
by Elizabeth | January 9, 2017 · 2:57 pm
Audit NZ admonishes commissioner Grant and SDHB #Health
[govt.nz]
"By not declaring all interests, particularly the pecuniary interests, exposes the DHB to an increase in conflict of interest risk and potential for reputational damage." –Report, Audit New Zealand
The auditors were also disappointed at a lack of progress in other areas. There were no up-to-date disaster recovery plans, a shortcoming identified previously. (ODT)
### ODT Online Mon, 9 Jan 2017
SDHB rapped over non-disclosures
Audit New Zealand has told the Southern District Health Board to sharpen up its act on financial disclosures after finding some interests had not been declared. Commissioner Kathy Grant made new declarations after the issue was raised by auditors, she confirmed to the Otago Daily Times. Mrs Grant had not realised they had to be declared.
….In its 2015-16 audit, Audit New Zealand recommended the DHB implement regular checks of the New Zealand companies office register to check for non-disclosures.
….The auditors said the DHB's "key challenge" was maintaining sustainable services while trying to improve its financial position.
● Kathy Grant is a consultant at Dunedin law firm Gallaway Cook Allan.
Southern District Health Board
End of year update on the Dunedin Hospital redevelopment project
The Southern Partnership Group (SPG) is pleased with progress towards having an Indicative Business Case, with a shortlist of options for the redevelopment of Dunedin Hospital, completed by mid-next year. "Despite the ambitious timeframe, we've met our deadline to workshop the longlist of options by Christmas and are on track to have that narrowed down to a shortlist by mid next year," SPG Chair Andrew Blair says. "The longlist options range on a spectrum from replacing the Clinical Services Building and refurbishing or replacing the Ward Block, to moving all hospital facilities to an entirely new hospital campus either nearby or somewhere else in Dunedin City…."
█ SDHB Annual Report 2016
█ Audit NZ 2015-16 Management Report
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Tagged as Audit New Zealand, Audit NZ 2015-16 Management Report, Audit report, Clinical Services building, Commissioners, Disaster recovery plans, Dunedin Hospital, Essential services, Gaffs, Health, Kathy Grant, Non-disclosures, Otago Southland, SDHB, SDHB Annual Report 2016, Southern District Health Board, Sustainable health services
DCC set to take away CBD car parks without Economic Impact research
SOMEBODY please work out how many individual car parks stand to be LOST from the CBD —all down to Council making things TOUGH for vehicle users in the Central City.
Starter list via Central City Plan and other developments:
(calculate how many individual car parks lost for each proposal)
1) Rerouting of SH1 one-way through Warehouse area and Queens Gardens ?
2) New segregated cycleways on SH1 one-way system from Warehouse area to North Dunedin ?
3) Pedestrianisation affecting Octagon, lower Stuart St and sections of George St ?
4) Hotel and apartment building, Filleul St/Moray Place ?
5) ORC Headquarters for Dowling St Carpark ? [a great site for ACC]
6) ACC office building for Frederick St Carpark ?
7) New Hospital, block bounded by Cumberland, Frederick, Castle and Hanover Sts ?
8) ORC bus hub (interchange) for Great King St and vicinity ?
9) Other ???
DCC Webmap or Google Earth will give the relative range of car park numbers. A quick sum will do.
Mayor Cull might wonder why there's little or no "growth" likely for Dunedin.
Apart from lack of on street car parking, another starter : the city's 'health and position' is undermined by the degraded Aurora power network that offers NO security of supply ahead. What does this mean for Businesses and Ratepayers via increased Rates and Line Charges, how many Business and Ratepayer defaults ??
After 25-30 years of deliberate neglect to the Aurora network, striving for "economic development" at Dunedin is nigh "Mission Impossible".
DCC can't afford to bring the Aurora network up to compliance —as Mayor Cull was told last Tuesday in a private meeting, it will cost a Billion Dollars to do renewals in Dunedin and Central Otago (not counting new build facilities to meet demand in Central Otago).
DCC are well and truly caught with their pants down.
THE BEST THING Central Otago people can do is buy their power network. Once made Safe, their network will generate revenue for expansion across CODC and QLDC growth areas ….Leaving sorry old Dunedin to an impecunious spiral of doom and disaster. How to rid the Dunedin millstone should be uppermost in Central Otago leaders' minds right now.
DCC Webmap – Frederick St Carpark JanFeb 2013 (highlighted)
DCC Webmap – Dunedin Hospital and University health sciences JanFeb 2013
The Mayor and Councillors might think it's AOK to skip out of an agreement with Southern Partnership Group, the Government-appointed hospital rebuild group…. SDHB and University of Otago had hoped to coordinate their future use of Frederick St carpark; it was a practical and logical proposal for university health sciences and the hospital precinct. Until…. the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) came along, with DCC then deciding to go for a quick buck. Why didn't DCC offer ACC the Dowling St carpark, instead ? —a better centrally located construction site for the Corporation office building would be hard to find, one that could include public parking on its lower levels (and say BYE to 'ORC imperialism').
Squirrelling the Frederick St plum to ACC is the dumbest thing this Council could do. Student graduates – if that is the Mayor's excuse for the Frederick St debacle – are quite capabable of walking to Queens Gardens for future employ.
Really, there never was a more useless ineffectual Southern town on the map. It has every deterrent sign needed for raccoons and new business. Tumbleweeds, cloned by Mayor Cull.
Is Southern Partnership Group running scared after finding out how much it costs (a massive sum) to deal to Aurora's transformer installation located inside the block bounded by Cumberland, Frederick, Castle and Hanover Sts – first site option for the hospital rebuild ?
The network facility comprises old transformers that could blow at any time. Of poor design, the transformers are not isolated from each other : if one transformer blows, they all do. To fuel the fireball, the transformers sit in a pool of oil. The cost to replace or relocate the facility is enough to 'blow' the hospital rebuild budget.
OTHER site options for the hospital rebuild rapidly gather impetus.
Wakari Hospital [affinityservices.co.nz]
The "somewhere else" option is likely to be Wakari Hospital.
No final decisions will be made until 2018.
### ODT Online Sat, 17 Dec 2016
Hospital may be relocated
The Government is considering shifting Dunedin Hospital away from Great King St. A "long list" of site options for the $300 million hospital rebuild includes shifting "all hospital facilities" to a different part of the city. While there has long been speculation about another site, the possibility was revealed in a press statement from the Government-appointed rebuild group. Southern Partnership Group chairman Andrew Blair declined to release the long-list document to the Otago Daily Times, saying it was a "work in progress" … The list was written by consultants, the Ministry of Health, the Southern District Health Board and the partnership group.
Google Earth – Wakari Hospital 2016
If the public hospital was to move from the CBD…..
IMPACTS include:
● Reduced Inner City Vibrancy
● Less Easy Repore and Connection with University of Otago Health Sciences, including Schools of Medicine and Dentistry
● Less Opportunity for NEW Complementary Business Activity/Support in CBD
● Loss of existing Complementary Business Activity and Support in CBD
● Potentially, (ahem) MORE carparks available in the CBD !!
● Distance/Isolation Problem for Hospital patients, their families and supports
● Distance/Isolation Problem for Hospital shift staff between their place of work, homes and CBD
ACC given 12-month exclusive due diligence period with view to buying Frederick St Carpark to build multi-storey building. DCC reneged on previous undertaking to earmark site for Dunedin Hospital redevelopment.
ODT: Councillors 'railroaded' into carpark decision
Dunedin city councillors were "railroaded" into their decision about the Frederick St car park, and given inadequate information about the risk of pulling out, Cr Lee Vandervis says. Cr Vandervis has taken issue with the Dunedin City Council for presenting the decision last week as "unanimous", and the council has admitted that was wrong. […] The discussion and decision were held behind closed doors, and councillors were prevented from speaking publicly. Two councillors – Andrew Whiley and Damian Newell – were informally reprimanded for speaking to the Otago Daily Times about the deal. Cont/
University of Otago Chief Operating Officer Stephen Willis says proposed ACC building in the middle of area envisaged for health and education precinct. "You've got the two book-end anchor institutes and then you bring another one right in the middle that has nothing really to do with health, education, or research."
ODT: DCC's ACC building deal criticised
Reneging on an undertaking to earmark a strategic piece of land for the Dunedin Hospital rebuild has undermined the city's two leading institutions, former Dunedin City councillor Hilary Calvert says. Ms Calvert has criticised the decision to give the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) an exclusive 12-month period to explore options for the Frederick St car park. The council had earlier said it would earmark the site for the health precinct envisaged by the University of Otago. The precinct depends on Government decisions on the $300 million hospital rebuild, which will not be made until 2018. Cont/
ODT: Council backs off land deal
The Dunedin City Council has backed out of its undertaking to allow the Frederick St car park to be used for the $300 million redevelopment of Dunedin Hospital. Instead, the site has been promised to the Accident Compensation Corporation, which is considering consolidating its operations to a proposed multi-storey building there. "That was then," Mayor Dave Cull said of the council's change of heart since October when it said the land was earmarked for the hospital. […] ACC has a significant presence in the city, with about 430 roles across the three sites. Cont/
ODT: Upgrade on hold till land swap clearer
A planned $8.1 million refurbishment of Hayward College has been postponed because the residential hall might be part of a land-swap with the Southern District Health Board so the area can be used for the Dunedin Hospital rebuild. Yesterday, the University of Otago confirmed it had put off the refurbishment until next year so that it does not go ahead while the Frederick St building's future is unclear. Cont/
"We are aware that it might be important, and that's why we're having discussions with them to make sure that we don't do anything that rules out any use for the site." –Sue Bidrose, DCC
ODT: Health precinct mooted
Dunedin Hospital could be partly rebuilt on land owned by the University of Otago and become part of a university health precinct under a potential land swap. The university has confirmed it is willing to consider a land swap, whereby it would own the clinical services building. The Dunedin City Council confirmed it has earmarked the Frederick St car park as a potential part of the plan. The university owns land in the Fraser building block, and on two other sides of the hospital campus. If approved by the Government, it could remove the logistical headache of building on a cramped clinical site. The first business case will go to the Cabinet next year, followed by a detailed one in 2018. Cont/
ODT: Green light for $8m cycleways
Construction could begin this year on Dunedin's $8 million separated cycleways along the city's one-way system. The New Zealand Transport Agency, which will fund the work, has signed off on a detailed business case setting out the need and basic design of the cycleways. They will be separated from traffic by concrete kerbing and will run along the right-hand side of both the northbound and southbound one-way routes. […] While car parking issues were a potential negative, business owners along the route had offered clever and positive ideas about how those problems could be minimised. Converting the council's Frederick St car park to a multistorey facility was also "on our radar", Cr Wilson said. Cont/
ODT: DCC mulls Frederick St development
A multi-storey development housing parking and businesses is being considered for the Dunedin City Council-owned Frederick St car park site. A report sent to councillors this week reveals council staff have already had discussions with several parties interested, as tenants or developers, in a development on the site. The report discusses three options for a separated cycle lane through the central city, and a parking study done in the area. It also considers possible ways to mitigate the potential loss of car parks – the major public concern about any new lanes – including possibly providing more commercial parking, such as a parking building. If the council chooses to provide about 100 extra parks on side streets as suggested, the total number of car parks lost to the lane would range from between 80 and 284 under the various options. Cont/
ODT: Council seeks $15 million portfolio boost
The Dunedin City Council is sitting on a half-billion-dollar property empire, but the man charged with managing it has big plans to expand … [City Property manager Robert Clark] was appointed to his post in late 2008 … Mr Clark was eyeing several potential projects in Dunedin, including a partnership with an interested private developer to build a $15 million hotel and car-park complex, or one of several variations, on the council's Dowling St car park. Other plans included an $8 million four-storey car park and retail complex on the existing Frederick St car park. Neither project had been signed off by councillors, but both were expected to be considered later this year, with a possibility one, but not both, would proceed. Cont/
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Tagged as Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), Aurora Energy Ltd, BUNGLING, Clinical Services, Cumberland College, Dangerous power supply, DCC, DCC City Property, Delta Utility Services Ltd, Diligence, Dowling St carpark (DCC-owned), Dunedin, Dunedin City Council, Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin Physio Pool, Frederick St car park, Frederick St carpark (DCC-owned), Hayward College, Medical precinct, MORONS, SDHB, SHORT-TERM GAIN, Site options, Southern District Health Board, Southern Partnership Group, Transformers, University of Otago Health Sciences, Wakari Hospital
Delta at Dunedin Hospital #worseluck
For the moment, at least….
Delta claims to offer "a comprehensive range of specialist electrical services to major industrials, commercial businesses and for new subdivisions".
"From hospitals, food processing plants and large ports to gold mines, we provide supply and reticulation services including design, installation, commissioning, maintenance and repair. We understand that security of electricity supply is the lifeblood of manufacturing and processing. Customers rely on our smart thinking to solve complex problems, and to work safely and reliably in sensitive environments."
Our highlighting:
Delta Link
We note with irony and concern, and given the names of those who 'govern' the SDHB, that Dunedin Hospital wants to SACK Delta over 'services' to the operating theatres!
Not only dangerous poles, 'life-threatening' theatre suites.
*Image: generalcomics.com – surgeon
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Tagged as Budgets, Business case, Clinical Services building, Delta Utility Services Ltd, Dunedin, Dunedin Hospital, Essential services, Frustration, Health and Safety, HELP, Hospital, Infrastructure, Ministry of Health, SDHB, Southern District Health Board, Theatre suites, Urgent work, Waiting lists
SDHB #FAILS with Healthcare Communication and Governance
[glasbergen.com]
"I read it in the paper — all the information I'm getting is from the ODT. Management doesn't talk to us, really." –Prof Jean-Claude Theis
### ODT Online Mon, 7 Nov 2016
Patients turned away
Nearly a third of orthopaedic patients referred for a first specialist assessment are being turned away from Dunedin Hospital, and the situation is becoming "untenable", orthopaedic surgeon Prof Jean-Claude Theis says. The Dunedin School of Medicine professor of orthopaedic surgery said the relationship with Southern DHB management had become "very bad". Orthopaedic surgeons were not consulted about a recent decision to outsource 129 surgeries. Prof Theis had not known about the outsourcing until an Otago Daily Times story a little over a week ago. […] "With management, we're not getting anywhere. There's no engagement. There's no clinical governance any more, across the hospital."
Locum ophthalmologist Dr Peter Haddad last week blasted the SDHB for keeping quiet, calling the decision "grossly unethical".
ODT: SDHB wanted 'free and frank' debate
The need for "free and frank" debate among Southern District Health Board bosses meant they kept quiet about the growing ophthalmology waiting list and cases of patient harm. The issue was not discussed in hospital directorate reports presented at public committee meetings since May, when those meetings resumed. […] The board notified patients less than two weeks before the release of the annual national adverse events report, later this week, in which patient-harm cases have to be disclosed. It will show 30 cases of harm from ophthalmology delays in 2015-16. There is likely to be more recent cases not included in the report …. [Interim chief executive Chris Fleming] admitted patients should have been told sooner. In an interview last week, Mr Fleming argued the situation was in part "good news".
[inkcinct.com]
ODT: Petition started about hospital rebuild
Frustration with what she sees as lack of progress on the rebuilding of Dunedin Hospital's clinical services block has prompted a Dunedin woman to circulate a petition she wants people to send direct to the Prime Minister or National MPs. Those who sign will "pledge not to support the National Party in the next general election unless we have an officially approved blueprint from the Government, acceptable to staff at the hospital and the medical school, to rebuild the clinical services block at the Dunedin Hospital by November 2017". Cont/
ODT: Mental health petition delivered to Parliament
Dunedin mental health campaigners delivered a petition to Parliament this week calling for a nationwide inquiry. The Life Matters Suicide Prevention Trust collected 1740 signatures. Chairwoman Corinda Taylor, with Denise Kent, presented the petition to Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox on the steps of Parliament on Wednesday. "The petition respectfully requests the House of Representatives to conduct a nationwide inquiry into mental health services to determine if current services meet the demand and if future planning is adequate to meet future demand." Cont/
Fri, 4 Nov 2016
ODT: SDHB conduct 'unethical'
Not telling patients sooner that they risked permanent sight loss from delayed hospital appointments was "grossly unethical", says an eye doctor who last year warned the board about the problem. In response, the Southern District Health Board admitted yesterday it should have told patients earlier. More than 4600 patients have been notified they are overdue for their ophthalmology appointment. In the past two years, 34 patients have lost part of their sight permanently, and that number is likely to increase. Cont/
Thu, 3 Nov 2016
ODT Editorial: Eye off the ball?
OPINION The latest revelations around ophthalmology pressures at the Southern District Health Board are confronting, and the problems are only part of the iceberg nationally. Earlier this week, this newspaper reported patients were going partially blind while they waited for SDHB appointments. […] Fixing or managing problems can prevent issues compounding, and alleviate financial and physical pressures on the health system further down the line. […] Commissioner Kathy Grant has said she has confidence in SDHB medical oversight and governance, yet the problem is such that the board is prepared for more cases of harm to emerge and has notified more than 4600 patients they have been identified as being overdue for appointments. Cont/
Wed, 2 Nov 2016
ODT: Ministry of Health 'ducking'
The Ministry of Health has been accused of "ducking responsibility" on the hospital eye appointment "disaster". The ophthalmology pressures at the Southern District Health Board have caused some patients to go partially blind while waiting for an appointment. The senior doctors' union and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists say problems highlighted in the SDHB are widespread throughout New Zealand. Cont/
"The problem has been exacerbated by the state of our information systems not being able to clearly identify this issue." –Commissioner Kathy Grant
ODT: Grant stands behind Southern DHB
Commissioner Kathy Grant declined to be interviewed yesterday about the patient harm cluster in ophthalmology, but says she has confidence in Southern District Health Board medical oversight and governance. In a statement, Mrs Grant said she was told about Dunedin Hospital's ophthalmology waiting list problem in the middle of this year. This week the board revealed 30 patients suffered partial sight loss in 2015-16 because of overdue appointments, on top of a group of four patients the year before. Six of the 30 have a "severe" degree of loss. […] The board has admitted it is not on top of the situation in Dunedin, and more cases of harm may emerge. More than 4600 affected patients have been notified. Cont/
2.11.16 ODT: Eye clinic treatment lists blow out
ODT: Extra orthopaedic operations sought
The Southern District Health Board is trying to find an external provider for an extra 129 orthopaedic surgery cases in a bid to meet a national health target. A request for proposal issued last week on a government website says SDHB would fund up to 129 extra orthopaedic procedures in 2016-17 in order to achieve a national health target. […] Orthopaedic surgery waiting times have been a source of tension between DHB management and orthopaedic surgeons. Surgeons have lobbied for more operations, and have suggested southern orthopaedic patients need to be more debilitated than in other parts of the country before qualifying for surgery. Cont/
ODT: Doctors' strike caused hundreds of postponements
The Southern District Health Board has released new figures showing the impact of the junior doctors' strike. Fifty-two patients had a procedure postponed and 725 outpatients had a hospital appointment postponed. Another 52 patients were not booked for an appointment or procedure once the strike notice was received, the board told the Otago Daily Times yesterday. Cont/
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by Elizabeth | September 3, 2016 · 4:07 pm
SDHB 'food' : Our eyes glaze over . . . .
Main, Dunedin Hospital – 1 May 2016 [Gurglars Media]
Fri, 2 Sep 2016
ODT: Petition calls on SDHB to ditch Compass
A petition calling on the Southern District Health Board to ditch its contract with the company supplying hospital meals in the area has been presented to the board's commissioner. Real Meals coalition spokesperson Anna Huffstutler said they had gathered 3000 signatures for their petition to get rid of Compass. "We want the Compass contract gone, and the job of preparing hospital meals and Meals on Wheels back where it belongs – in hospital kitchens where local ingredients are used and local people are doing the work."
Deputy commissioner Richard Thomson said a survey of SDHB patients showed satisfaction with meals in July was over 90%.
Sat, 3 Sep 2016
ODT: Anti-Compass deal petition presented
A petition calling for the Southern District Health Board (SDHB) to end the contentious Compass food contract was presented to SDHB commissioner Kathy Grant yesterday. The SDHB has faced criticism over the quality of the frozen meals since previously in-house hospital kitchen meals were outsourced in January. [Dunedin South MP Clare Curran] said the Compass contract was a "flawed project" which had caused a lot of grief for people in Otago and Southland.
### dunedintv.co.nz Thu 1 Sep 2016
The South Today
Petition calls for dumping of Compass contract
A food-oriented organisation has called on the Southern District Health Board to end its contract with Compass. The Real Meals Coalition has gathered thousands of signatures supporting the dumping of the contract. The quality of Compass meals in the region's hospitals has been called 'rubbish'. The petition, with 3000 signatures on it, is going to be presented to Commissioner Kathy Grant tomorrow. Compass has a 15 year contract with the DHB to provide ready-made meals, which some have criticised as disgusting and inedible.
Ch39 Link
8.4.16 Worsted
3.11.15 SDHB will 'takeaway' more than freshly cooked meals…
17.6.15 Southern District Health Board sacked !!!
16.4.15 Talk of replacing SDHB with commissioner
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Win! to DCC candidate Paul Pope #DunedinHospital
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SDHB Commissioners speed-bleed health system
"Mr Thomson said the board had had a "decimated finance team" because of a failed Government scheme to centralise finance teams in Auckland." (ODT)
answer, BRING IN THE CONSULTANTS
Commissioner team faces public
The commissioner team running Southern District Health Board has been publicly challenged about decisions it is taking at the embattled board. A meeting at Wakari Hospital yesterday was the public's first opportunity to speak directly to commissioner Kathy Grant in a public forum. […] Dunedin resident Natalie Wilson said she was concerned by an "excessive" reliance on outside consultants. The "cloak" of commercial sensitivity was used to hide information. Ms Wilson criticised the emphasis on staff "culture change", saying there was no research evidence that it worked. The board seemed to be playing "buzz-word bingo", and its most recent attempt at culture change came after similar failed initiatives of the sacked board, she said.
● Richard Thomson is a health board deputy commissioner; and chairman of the DCC Finance Committee.
### ODT Online Thu, 16 Jun 2016
SDHB's consulting bill queried
A health union is questioning a bill of more than $978,000 the Southern District Health Board has run up with an Auckland consulting firm. The Public Service Association will raise the issue at a monthly meeting between unions and the health board next week. […] In a formal response to an Official Information Act request, acting chief executive Lexie O'Shea said the consultants had been working on "service alignment" in recent months. Asked what that meant, she provided another written statement: "This has involved a systematic analysis of areas across the DHB to gain robust and more detailed understanding of our expenditure and performance."
$7000pw fees and expenses
The commissioner regime is costing the Southern District Health Board more than $7000 in fees and expenses every week, an Official Information Act request shows. Between November 17 and May 17, the commissioner team incurred $159,600 daily fees and $25,405 for travel, accommodation and food. As commissioner, Kathy Grant receives the biggest daily fee, $1400, and over six months she charged for 55.5 days, a total of $77,700. Mrs Grant's annual pay is capped at $180,000. Mrs Grant also incurred $8615 for expenses. Her biggest single expense was flights ($4487).
No SDHB election in 2016.
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C R I M E • against • S O C I E T Y
Commissioners who should know better
Kathy Grant
Graham Crombie
Angela Pitchford
The commissioner regime is costing the Southern District Health Board more than $7000 in fees and expenses every week, an Official Information Act request shows. Between November 17 and May 17, the commissioner team incurred $159,600 daily fees and $25,405 for travel, accommodation and food.
As commissioner, Kathy Grant receives the biggest daily fee, $1400, and over six months she charged for 55.5 days, a total of $77,700. Mrs Grant's annual pay is capped at $180,000.
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SDHB underfunded, no bandage
Review of the population based funding formula completed
Ministry of Health news article
A five yearly review of the population based funding formula (PBFF) for district health boards (DHBs) has been completed and will be incorporated into DHB's 2016/17 Funding Advice.
The funding formula is a technical tool used to help equitably distribute the bulk of district health board funding according to the needs of each DHB's population. The formula takes into account the number of people who live in each DHB catchment, their age, socio-economic status, ethnicity, and sex. It also has mechanisms to compensate DHBs who service rural communities and areas of high deprivation.
The funding covers a range of health services including primary care, hospital and community care, health of older people, and mental health.
The review recommended no structural changes to the overall model but proposed several changes, including to the rural adjuster to better reflect DHB population and geography.
In 2015/16 the PBFF distributed a total of $11.4 billion to DHBs. DHBs will not receive less funding as a result of the review.
█ Population-based funding formula Link
The embattled board – whose members were dismissed this year over a persistent deficit – will not get any extra cash (apart from deficit support) until the changes take effect next July.
### ODT Online Wed, 23 Dec 2015
Review helps SDHB a little
A review of the health funding model has revealed what many long suspected – the Southern District Health Board is not receiving its fair share of health dollars. A Cabinet paper on the Ministry of Health review was released yesterday. […] The formula is essentially a head count with adjustments for demographics, deprivation, and other factors.
All up, 561 employees received more than $100,000, compared with 521 last year – 413 were in medical or dental roles.
Doubling of DHB staff on $400,000+
The number of Southern District Health Board staff earning over $400,000 more than doubled in the last financial year, the board's annual report shows. The 2014-15 report shows 13 staff received more than $400,000, compared with six the previous year. Chief executive Carole Heatly has been overtaken in the pay stakes by two employees earning $520,000-$530,000.
The numbers: (via ODT)
561 staff earning $100,000 or more
13 staff earning more than $400,000
2 staff earning $520,000 to $530,000
10.7 executive management staff earning almost $2.8 million
$357,000 board members' fees
Source: Southern District Health Board annual report
25.2.15 South Link Health, hmm that name….
10.11.10 Neurosurgery STAYS @Dunedin
6.8.10 SERIOUSLY
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SDHB will 'takeaway' more than freshly cooked meals and a head chef
### Stuff.co.nz Last updated 05:00, 3 Nov 2015
Southern District Health Board commissioner Kathy Grant to reveal "work plan"
By Evan Harding
The woman charged with turning around the fortunes of the cash-strapped Southern District Health Board will reveal her master plan on Tuesday [today]. Health commissioner Kathy Grant and her team will reveal details of their "work plan" to staff of the Southern District Health Board at meetings in Dunedin, Invercargill and Queenstown.
Document released to staff fails to state how many jobs will go, redundancy details, and the logistics of the new food system.
More hospital meal reheating tipped
Dunedin Hospital's cooks will focus on food "regeneration" – rather than cooking fresh meals for patients – after their job numbers are cut, according to a proposal Compass Group tried to keep under wraps. The multinational took over Southern District Health Board kitchens last month, and has started the process of cutting jobs to prepare for introducing its own food system. This will include trucking meals from Auckland to the South.
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Dunedin Hospital #despair
Initially, it was hoped the $11 million upgrade would not get bogged down in a drawn-out approval process.
### ODT Online Fri, 30 Oct 2015
ICU upgrade approval not before March
Approval for the long-awaited Dunedin Hospital intensive care unit upgrade has been pushed back to March at the earliest, it has been confirmed. […] The upgrade was considered urgent last year, when the unit lost its accreditation to train specialists, and it was initially hoped building work would start by mid-2015 or sooner.
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Southern District Health Board sacked !!!
█ Kathy Grant, a legal consultant at Gallaway Cook Allan in Dunedin, will take up the role of Commissioner tomorrow.
"Southern is forecasting a final deficit of $27 million for the current financial year. That figure has effectively doubled in the last six months."
–Jonathan Coleman, Minister of Health
Southern health board sacked
Dunedin legal consultant Kathy Grant has been appointed the Commissioner of the troubled Southern District Health Board which has been sacked today.
Her deputies will be board member Richard Thomson, who was sacked as Otago District Health Board chairman in 2009, and Dunedin City Holdings chairman Graham Crombie.
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman announced this morning he had written to the SDHB sacking all members of the board and replacing it with a commissioner. Read more
● Perhaps unfortunate that Mr Thomson is in the equation – but some form of lowlife continuous knowledge possible. As for Mr Crombie – additional doubts there.
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by Elizabeth | June 9, 2015 · 8:40 am
A major development in the wings for the SDHB. Not before time! And while individual board members may feel aggrieved at their potential dumping, after what they may think has been all solid work and duty, the evidence is the health board has been operating with a screaming history of multimillion-dollar losses; obvious limitations for effect of timely interventions for many commonly experienced medical conditions; and within an array of building and facility conditions that, frankly, are a severe indictment on central government spending priorities and funding methods for Health.
Replacing the health board with a commissioner is both necessary and welcome, if not callously overdue. The make-do and rationed aspects of the health board regime, including recent losses of funding or subsidy to local health support services, are telling not only for urban areas and hospitals, but significantly debilitating for rural health, mental health, rest homes and dementia units, and other providers of crucial health services across the large territory that is Southern Health.
### ODT Online Tue, 9 June 2015
Board may be sacked
The Southern District Health Board may be given its marching orders and a commissioner installed to sort out its problems. The board has until Thursday to respond to Health Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman's proposal to consider appointing a commissioner under the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act, it was revealed yesterday.
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Talk of replacing Southern District Health Board with commissioner
See tomorrow's Otago Daily Times for more on SDHB.
Link received Thu, 16 Apr 2015 at 9:40 p.m.
█ Message: Snap!! – it's also happening in Dunedin
### whaleoil.co.nz March 27, 2015 at 1:30pm
The waning of Key's National: the arrogance and irony
The life cycle of any political party leader is clearly understood. What we are seeing now, the vulnerable John Key, the floundering of previously successful people that surround him, and people previously loyal turning their backs on him didn't just happen in the last four weeks. The by-election simply has made it more visible in a shorter period of time.
When John Key is out there, he only sees crackpots and sycophants. He's had so much of it, he can't even recognise when someone turns up with something genuine and important. The same for his MPs. –Slater
Then there was MAYOR DAVE.
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Dirty pool? #SDHB #University
Dunedin Hospital's physiotherapy pool has some bent admirers.
GUESS WHO ??
DCC Webmap – subject site
Last week What if? Dunedin received information that the pool's threatened closure is far from what it seems. A long-term plan has been sighted, in which either the hospital (SDHB) or the University of Otago is shown to be eyeing up the pool building. Note —the pool and a large empty space used for parking immediately adjacent to the University's student hostel property (at 490 Cumberland Street) are marked for "development".
It is said the $1 million quoted for the pool's building upgrade looks like 'a bogeyman conjured up to make the kids settle down to sleep and stop asking awkward questions'.
DCC Rates information (click to enlarge):
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Tertiary larks squeeze DCC ratepayers for $30,000
"The two [Auckland] firms had been hired to prepare concept plans and options for projects to improve the pedestrian and cycling environment in and around the tertiary campuses. […] This will enable projects to be 'picked off' by the various institutions together or individually." –Susan Lilley, DCC (via ODT)
● Why are DCC, university and polytechnic not buying LOCAL?
● (Student Ghetto) The streets are PUBLIC, aren't they? Or are they.
● University and polytechnic not paying enough rates?!
● Heaps of other questions?!
Kate Wilson said Chow Hill Architects and Flow Transportation were hired to come up with a plan, at a cost of $88,000, with the city council paying $30,000, and the rest split between Otago Polytechnic and the University of Otago. (ODT)
### ODT Online Thu, 7 Aug 2014
Auckland firms work on tertiary streetscape
Two Auckland firms have been hired to investigate options for a revamp of Dunedin's tertiary precinct, which could include making some areas pedestrian only. The work on the streetscape in the tertiary precinct is being overseen by the "tertiary precinct planning group", which includes representatives from the Dunedin City Council, Otago Polytechnic, University of Otago, Otago Regional Council, Otago Museum and Southern District Health Board.
5.8.14 DCC staff-led CBD projects that impact ratepayers…
4.8.14 Cr Wilson's integrity 'in tatters'
1.8.14 DCC: Sorting THE MESS
28.7.14 DCC: Residents' Opinion Survey 2014
2.6.14 DCC: Slip in service levels, why?!
1.8.14 University Partyville, North Dunedin: Put the cameras in ~!!
22.3.14 Dunedin North care less filthy slum
19.3.14 Dunedin North drunks
15.2.14 University of Otago: Starter questions for Harlene
10.2.14 University of Otago major sponsor for Highlanders
19.8.13 Cull on senility (firing up graduates)
31.5.13 University of Otago development plans
25.3.13 University of Otago: NEGATIVE PRESS: Weekly disorder…
20.2.12 University of Otago student orientation
17.12.11 Stadium + Cull love = University of Otago + OUSA party
23.11.11 Judge Oke Blaikie finally said it
20.5.10 Hahaha if you're still thinking Campus Master Plans look…
17.5.10 Campus Master Plan
North Dunedin – Where Campus Watch are operating [otago.ac.nz]
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