Controversy continues to dog how hospitals get permission to operate on patients. A year on from a complaint North Shore Hospital was breaching women's rights, an investigation into it by the Health and Disability Commissioner is still going on (file image). Photo: 123rf The rules have now been strengthened a little, but too weakly for some women's health advocates and in a way that raises further questions. The risk now was of a "piecemeal" approach, according to the Cartwright Collective - named after the 1989 Cartwright inquiry into unconsented gynaecological examinations at National Women's Hospital, that were dubbed 'The Unfortunate Experiment'.