Health bosses desperate to recruit new cancer doctors to crisis-hit Dunedin Hospital, will need to sell them on cramped spaces and shuttling up and down the street.
Te Whatu Ora has pledged to fix radiation oncology services in Dunedin after the Health and Disability Commissioner panned the years of specialist shortages and delays to patients.
But Lyndell Kelly who retired recently after 16 years at the 'rad-onc' team there, and a term on the Southern District Health board till 2022, expects that will be tough when the services have been largely left out of the hospital's billion-dollar-plus rebuild.
Instead, they must stay behind in an old, small building 500 metres away from the new inpatients block being built now - with a regular shuttle bus laid on.
Our reporter Phil Pennington spoke to Lyndell Kelly.
