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GPS data traps health worker in web of lies Mon, 12 Jul 2021, 2:23PM
A community healthcare worker lied about visiting an elderly client days before he was found unconscious. Photo / 123rf
GPS data traps health worker in web of lies Mon, 12 Jul 2021, 2:23PM
GPS data helped a community health service to untangle an employee s web of lies that covered up her failure to check on an elderly client just days before he died.
The support worker lied about attending her scheduled Saturday 90-minute session with the elderly man at his home in 2018, a Health and Disability Commissioner report has found.
The woman was in fact at her own home - around 11km away - at the time of the session, according to GPS data abstracted from an app used by support workers to log their visits with clients.