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By reporter Hamish McNeilly:
The posters on a boarded-up shop on Dunedin’s main street leave no doubt as to what store is about to open – it’s Cookie Time.
The company is set to open its second New Zealand-based Cookie Time Cookie Bar on George St, Dunedin’s main shopping area.
The… View moreBy reporter Hamish McNeilly:
The posters on a boarded-up shop on Dunedin’s main street leave no doubt as to what store is about to open – it’s Cookie Time.
The company is set to open its second New Zealand-based Cookie Time Cookie Bar on George St, Dunedin’s main shopping area.
The Christchurch-based company, which is now in its 40th year, has returned to the city where it first started selling cookies outside its home base, before distributing its cookies nationwide.
‘’Dunedin has a special place in the Cookie Time world – and we’re thrilled to bring the magical, high energy explosion of flavour and colour that is the Cookie Bar to the heart of the city,’’ said Cookie Time co-founder and managing director Guy Pope-Mayell.
The Dunedin shop, which will open later this month, will offer an all-day dessert breakfast line, including American cereals.
The Cookie Bar will also feature hero “freakshakes”, as featured in the Cookie Time Cookie Bar in Tokyo, Japan.
The first Cookie Time Cookie bar opened in Queenstown in 2010, followed by the Tokyo store in 2013.
The Cookie Bars also feature in-store karaoke and gift merchandise.
Pope-Mayell said the second New Zealand Cookie Bar had been a while in the making.
“We’ve put a lot of time and thought into testing and proof-pointing the concept domestically and internationally, and then of course the pandemic put the brakes on for a couple of years.
“Now we’re moving into full roll-out mode, and are looking to open a new location each year over the next five years.’’
A Cookie Bar project is also under way in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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From reporter Hamish McNeilly:
One of the largest infrastructure projects in the country – the $1.4billion rebuild of Dunedin Hospital – is under pressure.
Earlier this year those involved with the project were told to trim $100m from its budget while preserving as much as the design and… View moreFrom reporter Hamish McNeilly:
One of the largest infrastructure projects in the country – the $1.4billion rebuild of Dunedin Hospital – is under pressure.
Earlier this year those involved with the project were told to trim $100m from its budget while preserving as much as the design and clinical capacity as possible within a ‘’reduced footprint’’, a report from Te Whatu Ora Southern has revealed.
That report also detailed some of the risks of cost-cutting around the current design, some four years in the planning.
It suggests “undoing this in as many months carries significant reputational, operational and clinical risk”.
Those short term solutions, as part of what is known as “Option 4.2”, could result in increased costs over the life of the hospital, the report, dated September 2, warns.
“Without this due diligence, Te Whatu Ora Southern are unable to provide confidence that all potential risks associated with Option 4.2 have been adequately identified.”
Those risks included fewer beds being available than the current – albeit ageing – hospital, while the size of a laboratory would be cut.
The new option would also see changes to a mental health unit for older people, less storage for drinking water, and the removal of two logistics lifts and a bridge linking the inpatients’ and outpatients’ buildings.
While the design of the facility was “advanced”, significant changes to the design, particularly a reduction in size, would have a “negative impact on the reputation of the project and the NDH (New Dunedin Hospital) amongst both the public and Te Whatu Ora Southern staff”.
The report highlighted other concerns about that reputational risk, including public perception that the burden of providing health services is being pushed onto primary and community providers, and staff airing concerns and grievances to media.
The risk to the project’s reputation, alongside interested parties in the south, was “significant”.
“The need for a new hospital has been well interrogated, and public interest in the NDH is high,” the report said.
It also noted key clinical staff had given input into the design, and are “concerned that decisions are being made against clinical advice and data, and this will lead to poorer clinical and operational outcomes”.
That included growing anxiety over the possible exclusion of services, and the presumption that alternative funding would be found elsewhere.
“Staff feel there is significant risk that sufficient funding will not eventuate to offer these services in suitable facilities, and the community will suffer as a consequence.”
The report concluded: “Any change in the size or scope of the NDH, and any demand for significant redesign with accompanying consultant costs and demands on clinical staff’s time, will have a widespread negative effect on the reputation and expectations of the NDH project and facility.”
That would be perceived as a “broken promise” from what was approved in the detailed business case two years ago.
The revamp of Dunedin Hospital is part of the Government’s $7 billion programme to upgrade the country’s public hospitals.
Former Health Minister Chris Hipkins said the new hospital would “transform healthcare” in the region and deliver “improved health outcomes for future generations”.
Te Whatu Ora Southern’s report also highlighted how an interprofessional learning centre, with the support of the University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic, may also be missing from the project after an “official error or omission”.
The professional development unit would offer simulation spaces for training purposes, with Dunedin offering the widest range of health sciences disciplines in New Zealand.
The three parties were set to contribute around $17m each, but the cost pressure of the project meant the university would look at constructing the facility.
But due to its own cost pressures with other projects the university withdrew its offer in February.
That advice was passed onto the Ministry of Health, but never incorporated into written advice to ministers.
“Accordingly the records shows ministers approving a saving that did not, and does not, exist,” the report said.
A Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand spokesperson said: “Our position on the new Dunedin Hospital remains unchanged since the release of this report.
“We remain committed to ensuring Dunedin will receive a fit-for-purpose, state-of-the-art facility. Better care for patients remains the priority.”
Health Minister Andrew Little said he had not seen the report.
He said: “Every major building project in the hospital system has been asked to look carefully at their costs, because in the current climate we expect cost escalation.
“However, any substantial change to the new Dunedin Hospital project would require ministerial approval. I have received no advice about proposed changes to the scope or scale of that project.”
From reporter Hamish McNeilly
Andy Dalton went to hospital after struggling to breathe. He would later learn he had days to live.
The 41-year-old father-of-two found himself breathless while running, then later when lying down.
On October 11, he went to Dunedin Hospital’s emergency … View moreFrom reporter Hamish McNeilly
Andy Dalton went to hospital after struggling to breathe. He would later learn he had days to live.
The 41-year-old father-of-two found himself breathless while running, then later when lying down.
On October 11, he went to Dunedin Hospital’s emergency department where a tumour was detected pressing against his windpipe.
“He wasn’t able to get air into his lungs,” Amanda O’Connor, 36, speaking on behalf of her partner, said.
A scan revealed Dalton was breathing through a space of only about 3 millimetres. He was transferred to the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) that night.
Surgery to remove the tumour revealed he had a super aggressive and rare form of cancer called anaplastic thyroid cancer, which they couldn’t remove.
He was given a tracheostomy – a hole through the front of the neck and into the windpipe – so he could breathe.
But while in ICU the tumour continued to grow and began to restrict his airway.
A few days later Dalton was told he had “days left”.
“We were a bit shell shocked,” O’Connor said.
Dalton’s two children – a son, 8, and a daughter, 4, were “doing as well as you can expect”, she said.
The pair highlighted the incredible support they had at hospital, which included a consultant coming in on his day off to bring Dalton home in an ambulance for three hours, so he could say goodbye to family and friends.
“We were expecting any time,” O’Connor said.
Dalton, who communicates via a tablet, told Stuff hospital staff had “gone above and beyond treating me with the utmost care in what has been an incredibly scary, stressful and emotional experience”.
On Tuesday, Dalton had his final radiation treatment aimed at prolonging his life, which appeared to help slow the growth.
While the cancer was incurable, testing revealed he had a specific mutation known as the Braf gene.
Unfunded drugs that cost $5500 a month targeted the mutation and slowed the growth of the tumour.
“It does slightly improve prognosis, gives him slightly more time but nothing is a curative treatment for Andy’s cancer,” O’Connor said.
The family wanted him to have more time, particularly for his children, so they had set up a Givealittle page, hoping to raise $50,000.
Another potential treatment option was also unfunded, immunotherapy medication, PDL-1, which cost $100,000 a year.
“Nobody thinks he will get that amount of time,” O’Connor said.
He had returned home and the family had realised they were “on shaky ground”, she said.
“Every day since then has been a gift.
“I have found it a challenge, as his partner, to try and put on a positive face every day.”
The best case scenario was for the tumour to shrink around the windpipe, and he could speak – albeit quietly – with the tracheostomy still in place.
Dalton was able to talk with the help of an electronic device, as well as ‘’charades’’ with his children.
His son was desperate to have his dad watch him play sport, which included futsal and touch.
‘’It is about maximising memories for the kids,’’ O’Connor said.
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