Monday, 28 June 2021, 2:00 pm
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Kevin Allan
today released a report finding a pharmacy and pharmacist in
breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services
Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in relation to
dispensing medication to a teenager.
The teenager was
prescribed sumatriptan for migraines. The pharmacist
mistakenly dispensed another medication, sertraline, which
is used to treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder,
panic attacks, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder.
The error was discovered over six months later by the
teenager’s school nurse.
The Deputy Commissioner
considered that the pharmacist did not check the dispensed
medication adequately. The pharmacy failed to undertake an
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Media release from the Health and Disability Commissioner
Monday 14 June 2021, 03:32 PM
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Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding a nurse in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for his care of a man residing in a secure facility.
The man, aged in his fifties at the time of these events, has an intellectual disability and physical health concerns. He resides in a secure facility operated by the DHB and is a compulsory patient under the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992.
The man complained that he was assaulted by his primary nurse in the dining room at the facility. The man and the nurse told HDC different versions of events: the nurse said the man tripped and fell, whereas the man said the nurse pushed him. In any event, when the man was on the floor, the nurse sat on the man’s body and bounced on him, and did not remove him
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding a community support provider and nurse in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failings in their care of a woman with .
Monday, 24 May 2021, 2:14 pm
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today
released a report finding a radiologist in breach of the
Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights
(the Code) for their failure to identify information in a
scan.
The man, aged in his eighties, had a CT scan at
a public hospital to investigate abdominal pain and
diarrhoea he was experiencing.
The scan showed he had
free gas in his abdominal cavity which indicated a bowel
perforation. However, the radiologist missed this in the
scan report and the man was discharged from hospital. Sadly,
a few days later he died as a result of septic shock due to