Health and Disability Commissioner
public health complaints body
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- Surgeon removes wrong part of lungQuiet since 22 Mar 2025
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October 2026
- HDC refers Health NZ following patient deaths at Dunedin Hospital
- Health watchdog finds failures led to man's death in Dunedin Hospital
- HDC finds care failures after four-year-old dies of sepsis
- Health NZ breached rights after assault in Hutt Hospital emergency department
September 2026
- Dannevirke retirement village criticised for poor care and delayed diagnoses
- Coroner refers Ngāruawāhia killing to Health and Disability Commissioner
August 2026
- Unregistered counsellor found to have breached clients' rights
- Man paralysed after surgeon operates on wrong part of spine
- Midwife breached patient rights before baby's stillbirth
December 2025
- GP criticised for discussing pregnancy termination details in clinic reception
- Vaginal packing left inside woman for six weeks after birth+1
November 2025
- Health NZ criticised over stillbirth care at Waitākere Hospital
- Doctor told to apologise after missed bowel cancer diagnosis
- Man not informed of mother's serious injuries at Manurewa rest home
October 2025
- Girl given Boostrix vaccination at school despite mother refusing consent
- Health NZ criticised after three-year-old boy dies in Greymouth hospital
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September 2025
- Elmwood Village apologises after bedbound woman suffered burns+1
- Woman seeks $350,000 in damages following stillbirth in Taranaki
- Woman suffered during labour after epidural line dislodged
- Health NZ Southern failed cancer patient, commissioner finds
- Auckland woman dies after breathing tube mistakenly placed in oesophagus+1
August 2025
- HDC censures doctor and hospital after toddler dies of sepsis+1
- Woman claims surgeon performed unnecessary surgery causing nostril collapse
- Wellington health system deficiencies delayed fatal cancer diagnosis
July 2025
- No healthcare breaches found after teenager's death in 2015
- Woman found dead in Auckland home following ambulance delay
- Support worker ordered to apologise after filming taunts of disabled woman
June 2025
- Commissioner finds breaches in investigation of struck-off dentist
- Dentist criticised after woman suffered undiagnosed tooth infection
- Havelock North residents consider legal action over proposed crematorium
May 2025
- Widespread care failures found at Geraldine rest home+1
- Mother criticises investigation delay after baby dies during labour
March 2025
- Kaeo rest home criticised for failing to escalate care for resident
- Southland Hospital missed man's lung cancer for five years
- Midwife breached code during rural home birth resulting in stillbirth+2
- Cancer patient seeks answers after surgeon removed wrong part of lung
- Health New Zealand apologises to woman after medical mishaps
- Delayed surgery linked to death of 74-year-old woman+3
- Cancer patient seeks lung transplant after botched surgery
February 2025
- Surgeon breached codes after botched surgery left man with one lung
- Surgeon found in breach after removing wrong part of lung+1
- Dentist ordered to apologise after crowning wrong tooth
- Health NZ and GP asked to apologise for skin cancer diagnosis delays