Anthony Hill

A GP has been blasted by the Health and Disability Commissioner for the catastrophic mistake of ordering a patient to stop taking critical heart medication that was helping to keep him alive. Audio

A woman having an emergency caesarian was in excruciating pain but the anesthetist refused to believe her, saying what she was feeling was just pressure Audio

A patient was discharged from hospital with an acute untreated spinal injury because doctors didn't read his notes and decided incomplete xray pictures didn't matter. Audio

A baby has died after a senior doctor failed to order an emergency caesarean quickly enough. Audio

A doctor sent over 50 text messages to a patient and lied about test results as an excuse to meet up with her. Audio

A midwife who turned off a heart monitor that would have saved a baby's life delivered what the Health and Disability Commissioner is calling seriously sub-standard care that cannot be tolerated. Audio

A family doctor ignored scan results that said a patient could have cancer, instead telling the man he'd be ok and giving him anti-biotics for a lump that six months later was diagnosed as a malignant… Audio

The Lakes District Health Board chief executive Ron Dunham says this went on at a small hospital that had inadequate supervision of less experienced staff, and he's promising changes. Audio

The Health and Disability Commissioner has faulted a male mental health nurse who groomed a patient then had a sexual relationship with her. Audio

A report has found an elderly man died after being given a drug meant for heart attacks instead of a stroke. The Wairarapa District Health Board says it accepts full responsibility for the mistakes in… Audio

Could the shocking events that killed an unknown number of patients in a British hospital happen here? Karen Brown and the Health and Disability Commissioner, Anthony Hill; the chief executive of the… Audio

The public's health watchdog says district health boards and other health providers must ensure they listen to and learn from complaints. Audio

A woman who complained to her GP for four years about persistent bowel symptoms was finally diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer after she went to another doctor. Audio

An intellectually impaired man with ADHD and behaviour problems was forced to have emergency surgery after getting a power saw embedded in his abdomen while taking part in a supervised work programme.

Anthony Hill has found the Northland District Health Board failed to adequately care for the 75 year old who died from cardiac arrest five days after surgery in 2009. Audio

Staff at a specialist centre for brain injury patients failed to check on man for nine hours after he had a seizure and eventually found him dead in his room. Audio

An elderly woman died in Tauranga hospital after two doctors ignored advice from her GP that she was suffering from an acute hernia which needed urgent surgery. Audio

A doctor who had sex a vulnerable patient is still practicing - that follows an investigation that revealed he sent the woman hundreds of explicit text messages, met her for numerous sexual encounters… Audio

A nurse who used unreasonable force to wash a 76 year old woman, and then left her naked and cold in an empty bathtub is facing disciplinary action. Audio

A doctor is refusing to apologise for telling his patient to strip naked and then examining her breasts and vagina for signs of a urinary tract infection. Audio