
Baby stopped breathing after pharmacist failed to check 'reckless' steroid dose
The pharmacist made the medicine five times stronger than it should have been.
The pharmacist made the medicine five times stronger than it should have been.
The man, who had an aortic dissection, was wrongly advised to care for himself at home.
Carolyn Cooper warns that untreated hearing loss increases the risk of dementia.
An ambulance had been called to the woman who was experiencing an anaphylactic reaction.
The Minister for Disability Issues Louise Upston says misusing car parks for disabled people is the “epitome of arrogance” and the penalty will rise from $150 to $750.
The patient did not provide informed consent for the doctor to perform the procedure.
No one warned the man of the risk of taking nitrofurontoin for more than six months.
The HDC has found the doctor was 'unduly influenced by his own views' regarding her care.
She left notes around her house for those who would eventually find her.
The client was suspicious after her ex had information she'd only shared with the worker.
Despite two surgeries, it was too late to save the woman's eye.
The midwife has now been censured for multiple failures in her care of several women.
Pippa van Paauwe’s smear tests were incorrectly assessed as normal, two consecutive times.
The newborn had a brain injury caused by inadequate oxygen and later died.
Poor management of medication, health conditions, support plans also revealed.
She wanted to keep her iPad and charger in her room.
The midwife attributed discrepancies in paperwork to sabotage by her ex-husband.
Patient says she’s disappointed about the consequences for the specialist.
Patient had regular scans until 2019 when the surveillance ended.
Patient in his 80s was still struggling to breathe and had no proper care plan in place.
The GP did not provide the 'appropriate standard of care', a report finds.
A woman was discharged from hospital despite showing symptoms of infection.
A heavily pregnant woman and her stillborn child died in February 2022.
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The post-menopausal woman had been bleeding on and off for five years.
Care staff feared the 30-year-old might act aggressively so they left her alone.
'We were waiting and no one came' - family's distress after failed 111 call.
The woman screamed as she felt the electrically surging wire “cut through her cervix”.
An X-ray found nodules in lungs, but the woman, GP were not told. She died months later.
HDC finds failing to provide information was a prima facie breach of the health code.