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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.

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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

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 ...

The Health and Disability Commissioner has criticised the standard of care Te Whatu Ora Waikato provided to a woman who died of cancer.

Please note, this report involves a prima facie (1) breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights (the Code)

Dr Vanessa Caldwell said the organisation failed to inform the consumer, and her medical centre, of a chest X-ray result that recommended further cross-sectional imaging.

An untrained dentist fitted braces on a 12-year-old girl, causing damage that required jaw surgery. The dentist has been found in breach of the...