Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall has found the rights of a woman and her baby were breached under the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code), due to failures in care during labour
The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a care home breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failing to provide an appropriate standard of care to a respite patient
The Deputy Commissioner Disability, Rose Wall, is calling for a consistent quality framework to be developed and implemented across the disability support sector, including proactive monitoring and reporting of the experiences of disabled people
Oceania Care Centres have breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) by not providing an appropriate standard of care to a female resident
In a report released today, Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall has found a registered nurse at a telehealth service breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failing to provide services of an appropriate standard to a woman in her seventies
A Commissioner Initiated Investigation into the care of a disabled woman in a specialist residential care home has found two support workers breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) by failing to provide an appropriate standard of care and failing to treat the woman with respect
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found a DHB (now Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora) breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failing to provide a reasonable standard of care to a woman at a rheumatology clinic
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found that an obstetrician and gynaecologist breached Right 6(1) of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights because a continence procedure (a suburethral sling made of mesh material) was not discussed with the patient, or documented in detail, prior to being performed
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau (Health NZ) breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights after a surgical swab was retained inside a woman’s vagina following surgery
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