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Aged Care Provider Breaches Code For Failure To Manage Pressure Injury.
Tuesday, 23 January 2024, 1:41 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
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. The man was in hospital ... More >>
Surgeon Breaches Code For Not Informing Woman Of Results Of Knee Surgery
Monday, 18 December 2023, 2:17 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
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. The woman, who experienced knee pain from ... More >>
Disability Service Provider Breaches Code For Physically Restraining A Man 22HDC02152
Monday, 11 December 2023, 7:35 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
A charitable organisation that provides support programmes for disabled people, and several of its employees, breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights (the Code) after a man was physically restrained. The man, aged ... More >>
Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapist Referred To Director Of Proceedings For Multiple Breaches Of Code 22HDC02896
Monday, 11 December 2023, 7:33 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapist has breached multiple rights of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights (the Code) in his treatment of a woman, the Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found. Dr Vanessa Caldwell ... More >>
Failures In Care By Registered Midwife During Pregnancy And Birth
Monday, 27 November 2023, 1:54 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall has found a registered midwife breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for her care of a woman during pregnancy and birth. Following a period of labour, ... More >>
Pharmacists Make Dispensing Error In Providing Excess Medication To Woman With Mental Health Difficulties
Monday, 27 November 2023, 1:52 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
A registered pharmacist and a pharmacy manager breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) by giving a woman the incorrect strength of medication. The woman, who has a history of mental health difficulties, was prescribed ... More >>
Te Whatu Ora Southern Breaches Code For Unacceptable Delays In Care
Monday, 27 November 2023, 1:50 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found Te Whatu Ora Southern breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights (the Code) for unacceptable delays in referrals for the treatment of a man’s abscesses. Deborah James found ... More >>
Commissioner Initiated Investigation Finds GP And Clinic Breached Code For Actions During COVID-19 Pandemic
Monday, 20 November 2023, 2:13 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report from a Commissioner Initiated Investigation into care delivered by a GP (Dr A) and a clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr A consulted with patients in-person while unvaccinated ... More >>
Te Whatu Ora Breaches Code In Care Of Man With Severe Lung Condition
Monday, 20 November 2023, 2:11 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found Waitematā District Health Board DHB (now Te Whatu Ora Waitematā) breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights (the Code) in its care of a man with a severe and progressive ... More >>
Counsellor Named After Failing To Meet HDC Recommendations
Wednesday, 15 November 2023, 12:25 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
The Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC) has taken the unusual step of naming an Auckland counsellor who has failed to carry out any of the recommendations made in a June 2022 decision. In that decision Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner ... More >>
Shortcomings In Care For Man Undergoing Chemotherapy
Monday, 13 November 2023, 2:11 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Deborah James has issued a number of recommendations to a private outpatient oncology clinic, a registered nurse and an oncologist following their care of a man in his 40s who was having chemotherapy. ... More >>
Failures In Hospital Level Care For Woman With Parkinson’s Disease
Monday, 13 November 2023, 2:08 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
Aged Care Commissioner Carolyn Cooper today issued a report finding Remuera Rise Ltd (trading as Remuera Rise Care Home) breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for their care of woman in her sixties living ... More >>
Care Provided By Te Whatu Ora Colonoscopy Services 21HDC00481
Monday, 13 November 2023, 2:06 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
This case concerns the care provided by Te Whatu Ora to a woman who requires five-yearly surveillance colonoscopies. The results of a surveillance colonoscopy noted that four polyps were removed, and two biopsies were carried out, all of which were reported ... More >>
Psychiatric Assistant Breaches Code Following Indecent Assault Of Inpatient
Monday, 6 November 2023, 3:05 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found a psychiatric assistant has breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights after he indecently assaulted an inpatient in a mental health unit. Dr Vanessa Caldwell ... More >>
Waikato DHB Breached Code For Services Provided To Pregnant Woman
Monday, 30 October 2023, 2:31 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
Waikato District Health Board (DHB) (now Te Whatu Ora Waikato) breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights (the Code) for not providing services with reasonable care and skill to a pregnant woman. While she was 12 weeks ... More >>
A District Health Board Breaches The Code For Inadequate Assessment Of Older Woman’s Risk Of Deep Vein Thrombosis
Monday, 30 October 2023, 2:26 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found a district health board (DHB) (now Te Whatu Ora) failed to provide an appropriate standard of care in its management of risks relating to a woman’s surgery for a broken ankle. Sadly, the ... More >>
Nurse Breaches Woman’s Rights By Performing Excision That Was Not Consented To
Monday, 30 October 2023, 2:18 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has recommended a nurse complete HDC’s online training module on informed consent. She has also recommended the nurse apologise to a woman for breaching her rights to be fully informed, and to be provided services ... More >>
No Media Advisories From Health & Disability Commissioner This Week
Monday, 23 October 2023, 8:20 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
Tēna koe, please note that there will be no media advisories or reports issued by the Health & Disability Commissioner on Labour Day October 23. We will resume publication of advisories and reports on October 30. More >>
Doctor Breached Code For Providing Anti-vaccination Misinformation 21HDC02706
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 5:22 am | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
A doctor has been found in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights (the Code) for sharing a document containing anti-vaccination misinformation to a woman with COVID-19. In November 2021, the woman was isolating at home with ... More >>
Southern District Health Board Breached The Code Over Delayed Colonoscopy 20HDC02382
Monday, 16 October 2023, 6:42 pm | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
A report released today by Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell found Southern District Health Board (SDHB) (now Te Whatu Ora Southern) breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) over a delayed colonoscopy ... More >>
