Medicolegal

A legal challenge over the Medical Council’s 2021 guidance statement on the COVID-19 vaccine and anti-vax claims was underway in the High Court at Wellington today 

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

A pharmacy that mistakenly dispensed a fast-release insulin pen instead of a slow-release pen has been found to have breached a patient’s rights by the health and disability commissioner

In this article, speech language therapist Bridget McArthur examines at the foundation for gaining informed consent, particularly for those with communication difficulties

Non-practising legal expert and pharmacist Máté Hegedus-Gaspar, looks at health professionals’ obligations around keeping patient information private

Non-practising legal expert and pharmacist Máté Hegedus-Gaspar, looks at the ins and outs of Annual Practising Certificates and why they are so important

Non-practising legal expert and pharmacist Máté Hegedus-Gaspar, looks at the ins and outs of Annual Practising Certificates and why they are so important

Even if you trust the prescriber to do his or her job, pharmacists must also ensure medicines information is passed on to the patient, writes Máté Hegedus-Gaspar, pharmacist and non-practising lawyer

Máté Hegedus-Gaspar takes a close look at an HDC case, where a baby was incorrectly dispensed methadone, to extract lessons for pharmacists and technicians

If a doctor makes a script medication error, it is a breach of the patient’s rights if the pharmacist fails to rectify it, writes non-practising legal expert and pharmacist Máté Hegedus-Gaspar in the first of two articles on this topic