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Southland District Health Board
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About Southern DHB
Southern District Health Board Southern DHB was formed on 1 May 2010 and was created as the result of the merger of Southland and Otago DHBs
Southern DHB is the Governmentfunded organisation responsible for most publicly funded primary health and hospital services in the Southland and Otago regions of New Zealand
The former Southland DHB and Otago DHB were one of 21 district health boards that were established nationally on January 1 2001 under the NZ Public Health and Disability Act 2000 NZPHD They are the first to have merged to form a new entity
Southern DHB has a staff of approximately 4500 and is governed by a Board made up of both publicly elected and government appointed members The Board is accountable to the Minister of Health
As a DHB we are responsible for planning funding and providing health and disability services to a population of over 304268 located South of the Waitaki River Our catchment area encompasses Invercargill City Queenstown Lakes District Gore rural Southland Clutha Central Otago Maniototo Waitaki District and Dunedin City
We receive government funding of over 800 million per annum of which approximately half is applied to traditional hospital and mental health services delivered from Southland Hospital Invercargill Lakes District Hospital Queenstown Dunedin Hospital Dunedin and Wakari Hospital Dunedin These services are managed and delivered through our own facilities and staff collectively known as the Provider Arm
The other half of our funding is applied through contracts with a range of primary and community health providers This funding is distributed and monitored by our Planning and Funding Team to providers such as Primary Health Organisations general practices pharmacies laboratories aged residential care facilities Pacific Island and Maori Health providers nongovernmental mental health services rural hospitals and primary maternity facilities
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