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The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found a rural locum GP breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights in her care of a patient with ongoing right leg pain, swelling and other symptoms.

The woman at the centre of the report, was initially referred by her GP to Thames Hospital for an echocardiogram. She experienced significant delays in getting the echocardiogram done and learning the results which indicated severe heart valve disease

The breach concerns the care provided to a woman in her twenties who underwent a procedure at Greenlane Hospital to remove abnormal cells from her cervix following results from a smear test.

A coroner has suggested the countrys ambulance service lobby the government for more funding

Te Whatu Ora Waikato failed to pass on critical information about a patient’s X-ray results, who later died of cancer, the Deputy Health and Disability Com

A finding Waikato DHB failed to give a woman her full X-ray results - who then died with advanced cancer

The death of a Dunedin man may have been prevented if he had been given more information before consenting to the Covid vaccination that later claimed his...

The pharmacist vaccinated Rory Nairn, who died 12 days later.

Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell has today released a report relating to the vaccination of a man in his twenties who died from myocarditis found, by the Coroner, to have been directly caused by the Comirnaty (Pfizer/BioNTech) COVID-19 ...