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Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell welcomes the appointment of two new Deputy Health and Disability Commissioners to her office

A pharmacist has been ordered to upskill on her medicines checking after she incorrectly dispensed sertraline instead of sumatriptan to a teenage patient; it was her first day at a new pharmacy

A man who was supposed to receive a daily dose of 11mg of methadone, was instead administered 75mg, after a pharmacist confused his script with that of another patient, a report by Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell reveals

The Health and Disability Commissioner has rebuked a pharmacist, a pharmacy and the Northland DHB for a series of failures that resulted in a young boy with cerebral palsy and epilepsy being given the wrong medicine on several occasions

A GP has been criticised after prescribing a patient with a long history of mental illness a potentially dangerous amount of antidepressants 

A pharmacist has been ordered to audit her dispensing accuracy by the Health and Disability Commissioner after an error left a patient suffering paranoia and panic attacks

Systemic problems at Hawke’s Bay DHB meant a prisoner in its care missed out on being given his regular blood pressure and antidepressant medications, the Health and Disability Commissioner has found

The Department of Corrections and Clendon Pharmacy have been found to have breached a prisoner’s rights following an ongoing medication management failure that led to him being hospitalised four times

The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a pharmacy manager who made a dispensing error that resulted in the hospitalisation of a patient then altered the certified repeat copy to frame a colleague for it

A pharmacist and an intern pharmacist have been criticised by the Health and Disability Commissioner over a medication labelling error which led to a woman overdosing on tramadol