The management of the district health board embroiled in conflict of interest allegations surrounding a government- appointed board member has been hammered in an Audit Office report for breaching board policy when it handed out a $1 million contract.
Call for re-think of district health board system
Hawke’s Bay DHB report to be ready in two weeks
Allegations [...]
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Mar
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Mar
Another foreign doctor is embroiled in a health scandal after being linked with the births of three brain-damaged babies in just over 18 months.
One of the babies died and two were left with permanent disabilities.
South African-trained obstetrician Dr Ramesh Vasant left New Zealand for Australia in February 2005 as a Medical Council inquiry into his [...]
11
Mar
Victims at risk of serious domestic violence are being given alarm pendants that summon police and can record conversations or attacks.
The pendants are issued only to women who have protection orders against former partners and whose lives are considered to be at risk.
Dunedin family violence intervention co-ordinator Sergeant Simon Mapp said an alarm stopped harassment [...]
9
Mar
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