Deficiencies in care follow up from the Southern District Health Board
Deficiencies in care follow up from the Southern District Health Board
13 June 2022
The Health and Disability Commissioner has found SDHB demonstrated poor care of an emergency patient who presented three times with rectal bleeding.
She was later found to have rectal cancer.
Commissioner, Morag McDowell says this highlights the importance of critical assessment of multiple visits with the same symptoms in a short period.
She says clinicians missed a number of opportunities to coordinate the appropriate investigations, which would have identified the cancer.
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