The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has referred a mental health support worker to the Director of Proceedings to assess if further action should be taken
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner, Dr Vanessa Caldwell, has found a pharmacist breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for dispensing incorrect medicine to a woman
An elderly woman died after a telehealth nurse failed to recognise critical symptoms during an overnight call. Patrice Dougan reports on the HDC’s decision
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found a midwife breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) on multiple occasions in her care of seven mothers and a baby
A report released today by Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Dr Vanessa Caldwell has found Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Te Tai Tokerau (Health NZ) breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights (the Code) for delays in communicating a scan result
Two optometrists have breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) by failing to provide services with reasonable care and skill, and by not complying with legal, ethical and professional standards
A woman who was not told for almost eight months that her early-stage cervical cancer had gone undetected twice during routine cervical screenings, said she complained to the Health and Disability Commissioner because she didn’t want what happened to her to be experienced by other women
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management