In a cost-recovery drive, the Medical Council is boosting some of its fees, including the disciplinary levy that covers investigations of allegedly errant doctors
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall has found a rest home provider in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in the care of a resident with dementia
A man who was supposed to receive a daily dose of 11mg of methadone, was instead administered 75mg, after a pharmacist confused his script with that of another patient, a report by Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell reveals
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding a district health board (DHB) and a rest home provider in breach of the Code for failures in the care of an elderly man following a stroke
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding a pharmacist in breach of the Code for dispensing the wrong dose of methadone to a consumer and failing to follow relevant professional guidelines
Multiple failures by a GP who prescribed high doses of prednisone are a breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights, says health and disability commissioner Morag McDowell
Women who brought their traumatic experiences with cervical cancer to the Cartwright Inquiry of the late 1980s made a huge impression on Morag McDowell, then a law student at the University of Auckland
Following the pneumonia death of a three-year-old, an investigator has found fault with Canterbury DHB and made adverse comment on a medical centre and an urgent care clinic
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