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The Health and Disability Commissioner has found two psychiatric social workers breached the rights of a man who was suffering from schizophrenia and took his own life in 2016 

A pharmacist who mistakenly dispensed the wrong inflammatory bowel medication at a time when her pharmacy was short-staffed has been criticised by the Health and Disability Commissioner

A patient died from pulmonary disease after using nitrofurantoin for 28 months. During that time no health professionals warned the man about the risks, Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

THE HEALTH AND DISABILITY Commissioner has criticised a pharmacist for mistakenly dispensing an oral steroid with an incorrect label, causing a four-week-old baby to be given five times the prescribed dose.

The Health and Disability Commissioner has criticised a pharmacist for mistakenly dispensing an oral steroid with an incorrect label, causing a four-week-old baby to be given five times the prescribed dose

A junior pharmacist who mistakenly dispensed an antidepressant instead of a fertility medication has been found to have breached a patient’s rights by the Health and Disability Commissioner.

Several health professionals, including a pharmacist, a GP and a specialist doctor, have been criticised by the Health and Disability Commissioner for failing to provide a patient with information about the long-term risks of the antibiotic nitrofurantoin — information that may have saved their life

A junior pharmacist who mistakenly dispensed an antidepressant instead of a fertility medication has been found to have breached a patient’s rights by the Health and Disability Commissioner

The Deputy Commissioner Disability, Rose Wall, is calling for a consistent quality framework to be developed and implemented across the disability support sector, including proactive monitoring and reporting of the experiences of disabled people

A pharmacy has been pinged after an insulin pen dispensing error resulted in serious side effects, reports Jonathan Chilton-Towle