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Healthcare of New Zealand Ltd v CCDHB (14 December 2012)

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • February 12 2013

Healthcare of New Zealand (Healthcare) took judicial review proceedings against a series of decisions by Capital & Coast District Health Board

Decision to stop funding day services for over 65s was unjustified discrimination

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 19 2012

In 2005, due to fiscal pressures, the Ministry of Health decided to stop funding day services for people with intellectual disabilities who were over 65. Idea Services successfully challenged this decision at the Human Rights Review Tribunal, with the Tribunal finding that the decision to stop funding was unjustified discrimination on the grounds of age

Nurse's dismissal for convictions justified notwithstanding process failures

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 19 2012

A nurse set fire to her car in an attempt to take her life, and was charged with two counts of arson

Documentation, communication and coordination failures in community mental health service

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 10 2012

The Commissioner has found both a psychiatrist and a DHB in breach of the Code for various documentation, communication, and service coordination failures in the care of a community mental health patient who committed suicide

Dental technician who practised outside his scope of practice has registration cancelled

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 10 2012

The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has cancelled the registration of a dental technician who provided and advertised services that were outside the dental technology scope of practice (including taking impressions and manufacturing dentures without a prescription) and who also practised dental technology without a current annual practising certificate

Updated guidelines on the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 10 2012

The Ministry of Health has published an updated guidance on the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act, as well as updated guidance for employees of mental health services appointed as Directors of Area Mental Health Services and as Duly Authorised Officers

Caregiver's dismissal for contacting the media after assault by a resident justifiable

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 10 2012

A caregiver of four intellectually disabled adults living in shared accommodation was assaulted by one of the residents

Commerce Commission to focus on health sector

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 10 2012

The Commerce Commission has announced that it will work to increase understanding of, and compliance with, competition and consumer laws among health professionals over the next two years

Update on United Kingdom euthanasia case

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 10 2012

Tony Nicklinson, the man who (alongside fellow locked in syndrome sufferer Martin) recently challenged the United Kingdom's law on assisted suicide, passed away shortly after the Court released its decision declining to change the law (our update on this decision can be accessed here

Unsuccessful injunction application in after hours funding dispute

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • December 10 2012

A DHB stopped paying a rural after hours funding bonus to a group of primary health care providers after determining that the providers were not eligible for the bonus

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