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Code of Rights
Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights) Regulations 1996 1. Consumers have rights and providers have duties: (1) Every consumer has the rights in this Code. (2) Every provider is subject to the duties in this Code. (3) Every provider must take action to— (a) Inform consumers of their rights; and (b) Enable consumers to exercise their rights. 2. Rights of consumers and duties of providers: The rights of consumers and the duties of providers under this Code are as follows: Right 1Right to be treated with respect (1) Every consumer has the right to be treated with respect. (2) Every consumer has the right…
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The Health and Disability Commission
The purpose of the Health and Disability Commissioner is to promote and protect the rights of consumers as set out in the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights. This includes resolving complaints in a fair, timely, and effective way. Website: https://www.hdc.org.nz
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Research Participants Need Protection
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 The Government must not downgrade the system for ethical review of health research, believes Emeritus Prof Charlotte Paul. The Government is proposing to downgrade the protection of participants in health research, in response to a Health Select Committee report that argues for fast-tracking clinical research trials but gives scant consideration to the protection of research participants. If the Government’s proposal goes ahead, careful safeguards created in the aftermath of the Cartwright Inquiry will be lost. Instead of a system of rigorous review by ethics committees, the proposal allows “expedited review” (delegating the chairperson to approve summarised applications) for some clinical trials. It also almost halves the…
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Controversy 2012
Controversy concerning the Cartwright Report and the reforms that flowed from it continued following the 2010 publication of an international reprint of Professor Linda Bryder’s book. Republished in Britain as Linda Bryder, Women’s bodies and medical science: An inquiry into cervical cancer. London: Palgrave Macmillan (2010) In 2011 the New Zealand Journal of History published a review by John Burrows of the Law Foundation, of The Cartwright Papers: Essays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry 1987-88 published by Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, with support from the Law Foundation. This volume was edited by an Auckland University Associate Professor of Law, Joanna Manning. One third of the volume consisted of essays critical…