The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found a pharmacist breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights for failing to check the correct medication was dispensed to a consumer
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Dr Vanessa Caldwell has today released a report finding Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) (now Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau) and a Community Mental Health Service (CMHS) [1] breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for their care of a woman in her twenties
Deputy health and disability commissioner Deborah James says a doctor was ultimately responsible for allowing an unqualified employee to administer Botox injections to a woman who suffered adverse side effects
Aged care commissioner Carolyn Cooper says a medical centre’s failure to monitor a man's prostate cancer adequately breached the code and may have prevented the early detection of a pancreatic tumour
A doctor has breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for directing an unqualified employee to administer Botox to a woman who then suffered adverse reactions and for not ensuring that appropriate informed consent was obtained
In a report released today, Aged Care Commissioner Carolyn Cooper found a medical centre breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for their care of a man with prostate cancer
In a report released today, Aged Care Commissioner, Carolyn Cooper, has found Tamahere Eventide Home and Retirement Village, an enrolled nurse and a registered nurse breached the Code of Health and Disabililty Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for their care of a female resident in her nineties
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found Bupa Whangarei Rehabilitation Pou Oranga (BPO) breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failing to provide services with reasonable care and skill (Right 4 (1)) to one of its residents
In a report released today, Aged Care Commissioner Carolyn Cooper found Mayfair Lifecare (2008) Limited breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for their care of a man in his eighties
A surgeon breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights (the Code) after deficiencies in communication during both preoperative and postoperative consultations relating to knee surgery
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