Another Christchurch Rest Home is in the gun for failures within their system. In this case a 93-year-old man died after receiving substandard care at a Christchurch rest home, the Health and Disability Commissioner has ruled. Instead of receiving the hospital-level care he required, the man was given a bed in another ward where his…
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New Clinical Assessment for Rest Homes
Supercare4u.com provides medical transfers to numerous Rest Homes in Auckland. This industry is introducing a new clinical assessment ,computer-based programme, known as InterRAI, which is being introduced by the Health Minister and has insisted that all providers would start using it in June 2014, with it becoming mandatory by July 2015. Supercare4u.com feels that this…
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Disability V Business
(reprint) The new green If chief executives won medals, Justin King of J. Sainsbury, a British supermarket chain, would be sporting a gold in the marketing marathon for his prescient decision to concentrate sponsorship on the Paralympics rather than the glitzier Olympics. The plaudits he and other companies have received for backing what was previously…
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Cutbacks for Ambulance Service
The elite "Order of St Johns" received $223 million in the 2010-2011 financial year, 80 per cent of it coming from the Ministry of Health and ACC. Their annual operating loss has risen from $8 million five years ago, with an increasing number of elderly people needing transport producing a 4.5 per cent rise in…
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