Monday, 26 July 2021, 2:07 pm
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today
released a report finding rest home owners Oceania Care
Company Limited in breach of the Code of Health and
Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for
failures in its care of a man who suffered two
falls.
The man had a medical history of poor balance,
severe fatigue, impaired hearing and end-stage renal
failure. At the time of events the man had been a resident
at the rest home for only five days.
The first fall
occurred when a staff member helped the man to the toilet,
and left him alone. The second fall occurred when the man
Monday, 26 July 2021, 10:12 am
“MIQ is the bottleneck starving the New Zealand economy
of the skilled people businesses need to grow and
compete,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
“ACT has
a plan to expand MIQ places and make it safer than what the
Government is doing now. Under ACT’s plan, owners of
currently mothballed hotels could seek a licence to operate
MIQ according to strict criteria.
“New Zealand is
losing business to countries that have a plan to reconnect,
while our Government frets and marks
time.
“Introducing the cohort model, where MIQ
hotels fill up for a couple of days before being sealed for
Monday, 26 July 2021, 1:40 pm
Protests
in Cuba highlight the impact of U.S. embargo. Time to end
the U.S. economic war against Cuba!
Public
meeting, 5.30 pm, Thursday, July 29, FIRST Union, 120 Church
St Onehunga.
Protests in Cuba on July 11 were given
prominent coverage in the mainstream media.
But it
was falsely claimed that they were an anti-government
uprising, that the government had mismanaged its response to
COVID-19, and that there was violent repression by the
police of peaceful demonstrations, said Fiona Taler,
spokesperson for the Auckland Cuban Friendship
Society.
What gained little media attention
was the counter-response. The Cuban president went into the
Monday, 26 July 2021, 12:30 pm
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Health Minister Andrew
Little have joined a ceremony to bless the site and workers
for Phase Two of the redevelopment of the Bay of Islands
Hospital in Kawakawa today.
The new building will
house outpatients and primary care facilities, as well as
expanded renal care and new oncology and haematology
services.
“The Government has invested $14 million
in this project to help the Northland District Health Board
address inequitable health outcomes for Māori, by making
services easier to access for communities,” Jacinda Ardern
said.
“It is unacceptable that the place you live
Monday, 26 July 2021, 1:18 pm
KPMG has announced the appointments of Stephanie Ward and
Rachael Niao, who have recently joined the partnership. The
appointments build on those announced earlier this year of
Sarah McGrath, Jodi Newth, Nick Moss, Leon Bowker, and Mike
Lowe. Together these appointments strengthen KPMG’s
ambition to foster a partnership of diverse-thinking,
industry-leading professionals, with a commitment to
fuelling New Zealand’s prosperity.
KPMG CEO Godfrey
Boyce says, “I am pleased to congratulate our newest
partners formally. Their appointments reflect our firm’s
determination to help New Zealand’s businesses succeed,
the public sector to achieve more, and our communities to