
Affair may cost midwife's career
"I could not believe that two people who were supposed to care for me could possibly be so horrible," the patient said in her complaint about the midwife.
"I could not believe that two people who were supposed to care for me could possibly be so horrible," the patient said in her complaint about the midwife.
A self-employed midwife who had an affair with her patient’s partner has been found to have seriously breached the ethical code of midwifery.
A woman having trouble getting pregnant discovered a surgeon had inserted a contraceptive device in her without her consent.
A nurse who used the same needle on two patients and failed to tell the second patient of the error for days has been referred to the Nursing Council.
Tauranga's coroner says "significant and serious failures" in the health care provided at Tauranga Hospital to two patients contributed to their premature deaths.
As Jo Griffiths lay in a coma in Wellington Hospital's intensive care unit, her teenage daughter was asked to make a call.
A dentist who left a patient with a piece of snapped equipment in his root canal has been criticised by the deputy health and disability commissioner.
Three general practitioners have been ordered to apologise after an overweight smoker died following repeatedly being prescribed an oral contraceptive pill.
A former rest home manager is calling for better care for the elderly after her father was "starved of food and fluid" in a Whakatane centre.
A psychiatrist who had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient and paid her to keep mum has been stripped of his registration and ordered to pay more than $70k.
A doctor who had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient, and paid her tens of thousands of dollars to keep quiet about it, has been found guilty of professional misconduct.
An intellectually impaired man was mistreated by caregivers at a respite facility, highlighting "multiple failings" in his care.
A psychiatrist who treated patients with the drug ketamine for depression was not carrying out research or experimental treatment, it's been found.
A plastic surgeon failed to tell a patient she had contracted the superbug MRSA following breast reduction surgery, the Health and Disability Commission has found.
A chiropractor accused of pinching a woman's nipples while treating her for lower back and leg pain has been told to formally apologise.
A hospital has apologised to a West Coast woman who suffered horrific burns when near-boiling water burst inside her during a procedure.
The parents of Zachary Gravatt, who died of meningococcal disease, have revealed a fresh agony they faced in putting their 22-year-old medical-student son to rest.