Dunstan Hospital's management is predicting hospital finances to be tighter this year than usual, but says services will hopefully be unaffected. Central Otago Health Services Ltd (COHSL) manager Karyn Penno said 2017-18 funding from the Southern District Health Board (SDHB) had not yet been confirmed, but the level of funding indicated meant things would ''be really, really tight''. The suggested funding was ''not as much as we'd like'', but should be similar to past years and hopefully finalised within about a month. Ms Penno said although Dunstan Hospital finances were expected to be ''much tighter than in previous years'', hopefully no services would be cut. ''But as always we will be seeking different ways of doing things, and ways of working with people, to do things the best we possibly can.''

Source: Otago Daily Times July 12, 2017 18:11 UTC