Press Release – Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights (the Code) for failures in its care of a …
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in its care of a child later diagnosed with a rare brain tumour.
The child, aged 5-6 years at the time of these events, was under the care of CMDHB’s paediatric service. Her family took her to the public hospital on multiple occasions with symptoms of persistent abdominal pain, vomiting and headache. Later, she developed neurological symptoms including slurred speech.
Monday, 12 July 2021, 2:15 pm
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today
released a report finding Counties Manukau District Health
Board (CMDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability
Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in its
care of a child later diagnosed with a rare brain
tumour.
The child, aged 5-6 years at the time of these
events, was under the care of CMDHB’s paediatric service.
Her family took her to the public hospital on multiple
occasions with symptoms of persistent abdominal pain,
vomiting and headache. Later, she developed neurological
symptoms including slurred speech.
The fourth time she
Monday, 12 July 2021, 2:14 pm
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today
released a report finding a surgeon in breach of the Code of
Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the
Code) for failures in her care of a woman who was later
diagnosed with breast cancer.
The woman, in her
forties at the time of these events, had been diagnosed and
treated for breast cancer in 2013.
In 2018, she was
found to have a breast lump. The breast and general surgeon
performed a biopsy on the lump but failed to order a
mammogram or an ultrasound. The surgeon formed the opinion
that the breast lump was benign and discharged the
Press Release – Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding a surgeon in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights (the Code) for failures in her care of a woman who was later diagnosed with breast …
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding a surgeon in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in her care of a woman who was later diagnosed with breast cancer.
The woman, in her forties at the time of these events, had been diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 2013.
Monday, 5 July 2021, 2:08 pm
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Kevin Allan
today released a report finding a district health board in
breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services
Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in its care of a
woman with an ongoing dental infection.
Following an
unsuccessful root canal treatment, the woman went to the
Capital and Coast District Health Board (CCDHB) emergency
department with facial swelling and worsening pain. Her
tooth was extracted and she was admitted to the emergency
department observation unit overnight before being
discharged. She was given antibiotics and a follow-up
appointment was arranged.