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The Health and Disability Commissioner has found an obstetrician and gynaecologist breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights for failures in communication regarding a woman’s gynaecological procedure.

OPINION Going through cancer treatment is up there with one of the hardest things someone has to deal with in their lifetime. The Government and its agencies...

Health and disability commissioner Morag McDowell this week revisited her scathing assessment of southern cancer services, a year on from her...

The Health and Disability Commissioner has acknowledged the progress made since the publication of her Commissioner Initiated Investigation (CII) into Southern Blood and Cancer Services (SBCS) in April 2023. In Morag McDowell’s addendum to the CII, ...

The Health and Disability Commissioner says until oncology workforces are brought up to a viable level there's no guarantee patients will be treated within "appropriate timeframes".

"There is no guarantee there will not be ongoing patient harm."

The Health and Disability Commissioner says until oncology workforces are brought up to a viable level there's no guarantee patients will be treated within "appropriate timeframes".

Cancer services in the South are more at risk now than when a damning health and disability commissioner report was written last year, a doctor is...

The Health and Disability Commissioner has acknowledged the progress made since the publication of her Commissioner Initiated Investigation (CII) into Southern Blood and Cancer Services (SBCS) in April 2023

By Ruth Hill of RNZ Some cancer patients in Southland and Otago are still waiting too long for treatment due to workforce shortages, 10 months after a highly...