Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Dr Vanessa Caldwell has found a GP breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) in relation to an increased prescription of oxycodone
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found an obstetrician and gynaecologist breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) in his care of a pregnant woman who he discharged home, despite her showing ‘red flag’ symptoms for infection and experiencing abdominal pain
The Health and Disability Commissioner found a dermatology clinic breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights after a man was left badly burnt
A vigilant GP registrar unearthed a Christchurch Hospital ultrasound scan showing a patient’s likely kidney cancer that had repeatedly slipped through the cracks for several years
A GP failed to record any clinical notes during a phone consult with an elderly, terminally ill patient, apart from noting the consult was “virtual” due to the COVID-19 pandemic
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found Canterbury DHB (CDHB) (now Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury) breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights for failing to provide services of an appropriate standard
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall has today issued a report finding two GPs at a medical centre breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for services provided to a man in his 80s receiving palliative care at home for terminal lung cancer
Medical Protection Society (MPS) medicolegal consultants Samantha King and Tim Cookson sought to answer how GPs can protect themselves and their patients in a time of severe resource constraints in a session at last week’s Rotorua GPCME
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