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New Zealand Health - Page 7

Hutt Hospital's 'high risk' conditions

Fleas, overcrowding and insufficient infection control at Hutt Hospital sounded alarms at the Ministry of Health. Ref. Source 9

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Routine procedure 'like something out of a horror movie'

A routine medical procedure turned into a nightmare for Erlene Taylor when she wasn't properly sedated and ended up in extreme pain. Ref. Source 9

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Drugged up and allowed to drive

A man has been left brain-damaged by a car crash after a hospital pumped him full of morphine then let him drive home. Ref. Source 3

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DHB's 'in survival mode'

Nurses stopped work at Dunedin Hospital yesterday, apparently fed up with issues that are undermining clinical safety - just one of many signs the city's health services are in crisis, Dunedin MPs say. Ref. Source 9

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Deadly fever fears for NZ

An outbreak of dengue fever that has killed three people and swamped hospitals in Fiji may be headed for New Zealand, experts warn. Ref. Source 7

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Missing gowns and towels cost hospitals dear

They are hardly the height of style and comfort, but up to $200,000 worth of hospital gowns and towels go missing from lower North Island hospitals each year. Ref. Source 4

New Zealand Health - Page 7

Fluoridation endorsed by Hutt health board

Two former Lower Hutt mayors have been accused of holding a health board to ransom during a tetchy debate on fluoridation. Ref. Source 9

New Zealand Health Psychology Special & Health - Page 7

Crucial X-ray unseen

A man who died in hospital could have been saved had a doctor, overwhelmed by a busy night shift, not forgotten to review an X-ray, a coroner heard last week. Ref. Source 5