ASMS senior doctors’ 48-hour strike planned for 23 and 24 September 2025
Senior doctors and dentists at Health NZ public hospitals and health services plan to strike for 48 hours on Tuesday 23 September and Wednesday 24 September.
Emergency departments will be open for emergencies only.
GPs, after-hours and urgent care clinics, and other community health providers are not affected by the strikes and will continue to operate as normal.
Dunedin Hospital Main Block 201 Great King Street Dunedin
Postal address
Anaesthesia services Otago Private Bag 1921 Dunedin 9054 New Zealand
Southland Hospital
Street address
Southland Hospital Kew Road Invercargill
Postal address
Anaesthesia services Southland PO Box 828 Invercargill 9840 New Zealand
Services we provide
Cardiology services provide diagnostic and interventional cardiology. This means we investigate if you have a heart condition and deal specifically with the catheter-based treatment of structural heart diseases. Heart conditions can include:
cardiac arrhythmias
cardiovascular disease
heart failure
valve disease.
Our service incorporates a general ward and a coronary care unit. A broad range of non-invasive diagnostic testing is available for outpatients and inpatients, such as:
blood tests
cardiac ultrasound (echocardiogram)
coronary angiogram
electrocardiogram (ECG)
exercise (ECG).
Outpatient clinics are delivered at Dunedin and Southland hospitals.
Dunstan Hospital also provides cardiology services in Clyde.