Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding an assisted living facility and nurse in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in the care of a woman who suffered burns
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Media release from the Health and Disability Commissioner
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Kevin Allan today released a report finding a counsellor in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failing to maintain professional boundaries with a woman in his care
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Media release from the Health and Disability Commissioner
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding a rest home in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in its care of an elderly man
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Media release from the Health and Disability Commissioner
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has applauded the Government’s announcement yesterday that a self-test for cervical cancer will be available from 2023
New Zealand’s largest Primary Health Organisation (PHO), ProCare, is delighted with the announcement from Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall that the Government will commit $53 million in Budget 2021 to support the introduction of new cancer screening for women, including the introduction of the easier self-screen test for HPV
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) received a 97 percent increase in privacy breach notifications in the first four months of the new Privacy Act, compared to the previous six months
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Media release from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Professor Harvey White, cardiologist and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Unit at Auckland City Hospital has just published in JAMA Cardiology simultaneously with presentation at the virtual American College of cardiology Meeting in Atlanta. The manuscript is from the NIH funded ISCHEMIA trial for which Professor White was on the steering committee and in which New Zealand randomized 28 patients
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Media release from the Cardiovascular Research Unit at Auckland City Hospital
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