The patient's complaint was submitted via the Nationwide Health and Disability Advocacy Service and regarded the massage therapist’s alleged unprofessional behaviour during the massage, including ...
In his state-of-the-nation speech last week, ACT Party leader David Seymour advised New Zealanders to “get past their squeamishness about privatisation” and ask themselves: ...
A patient raised concerns to HDC that a lesion in her right lung was missed in both her 2017 and 2019 chest X-rays and was discovered only in 2021, which led to a delayed diagnosis of pulmonary ...
“In New Zealand, the MMR vaccine is given to babies at 12 months and 15 months of age. However, if you’re travelling to a country with an active measles outbreak and your baby is less than 12 months ...
"The ‘back-to-school effect’ is greater than the ‘winter effect’ when it comes to children’s respiratory disease with the risk of hospitalisation two and a half times higher on the peak day in the ...
"The Minister has had a week of briefings from officials and knows the issues so should start delivering straight away and lift the hiring freeze on the health workforce," said Duane Leo, National ...