Monday, 26 July 2021, 2:01 pm
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today
released a report finding South Canterbury District Health
Board (SCDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability
Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for a number of
failures in its care of a woman in 2019.
The woman,
aged in her twenties, presented to the Emergency Department
(ED) three times with worsening abdominal pain, vomiting and
an increasing CRP level - a marker of infection.
On
her third visit to ED, a CT scan found that her small bowel
lacked blood supply and was significantly compromised. Her
condition was deemed non-survivable and, sadly, she later
Rachael Comer15:46, Jul 26 2021
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The South Canterbury District Health Board has been found to have breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights.
An investigation into the death of a woman at Timaru Hospital has identified a number of failures by the South Canterbury District Health Board (SCDHB), a report by the Health and Disability Commissioner says. The SCDHB has been found to have breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights for a number of failures in its care of the woman, aged in her 20s, who presented to the hospital’s emergency department three times with worsening abdominal pain, vomiting and an increasing CRP level – a marker of infection, in 2019.
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Esther Ashby-Coventry14:39, Jul 21 2021
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The SCDHB expects to now in about 12 months how much is owned to 3000 past and present staff caught up in incorrect payments under the Holidays Act. (File photo).
The South Canterbury District Health Board s share of a New Zealand-wide $1.5 billion holiday pay blowout is estimated between $10 million and $14m. The SCDHB has revealed to the
Timaru Herald, after an Official Information Act request, that about 3000 SCDHB former or current employees are affected over a 10-year period with the Ministry of Health having confirmed that nationwide more 200,000 were believed to have been wrongly paid under the Holidays Act.
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