Nine To Noon for Tuesday 26 February 2008

On Nine to Noon Today

9:05 Whanganui DHB - HDC report into Dr Roman Hasil
Ron Patterson, Health and Disability Commissioner; and Dr Gillian Gibson, Chair of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

9:30 Sports poaching
Debbie Brahne, mother of student barred from playing at her new school

9:45 Sports Poaching
Dale Burden, Principal, Mt Albert Grammar School, Auckland

9:45 US correspondent Jack Hitt

10:25 Book Review with Anne Buchanan: 'You Said What?' by Bill Fawcett
(HarperCollins US ISBN 978 006 113 0502)

10:30 Gregory Burke, writer of 'Black Watch'
Writer of the award winning play currently at NZ Festival of the Arts from the National Theatre of Scotland

11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram

11:30 Self harm in teens
Professor Keith Hawton, Consultant Psychiatrist with Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare Trust and Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford University is in New Zealand to talk about adolescent self harm and share his research based on extensive studies in the UK and Europe.

He has been working in the field of research into suicide and deliberate self-harm for more than 25 years and his work has resulted in over 200 publications.

He has conducted a large study involving six thousand high school children. The findings are in the British Medical Journal and his book - 'By Their Own Young Hand: Deliberate Self-harm and Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents'.

Professor Hawton has written and edited several other books, including:
- The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide
- Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Behaviour: From Science to Practice

'Deliberate self harm in adolescents' is part of the Health Lecture Series at the University of Otago School of Medicine, Christchurch on Wednesday 27 February, at 7.30pm, in the Rolleston Lecture Theatre.

11:45 Media commentator Phil Wallington