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GP referrals and access to hospital services
Published: 7 May 2020
Response from Minister of Health
GP referrals and access to hospital services
Published: 16 April 2020
Letter to Minister of Health
Health & Disability Commissioner supports government pay cut initiatives
Published: 16 April 2020Health and Disability Commissioner Anthony Hill, together with Mental Health Commissioner Kevin Allan and Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall announced this morning that they will each donate 20 per cent of their salary to charities for six months. All three are appointed by the Governor-General.
COVID-19
Published: 26 March 2020
New Zealand moved to Alert Level 4 in the response to COVID-19 at 11:59PM on 25 March 2020.
Commissioner moving on from HDC after a decade
Published: February 2020Health and Disability Commissioner Anthony Hill confirmed that his current term, which ends later this year, will be his last.
Submissions by HDC on the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Bill
Published: December 2019
Response to release of surgical mesh report
Published: December 2019The Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner acknowledged the release today of the report detailing the harm caused by surgical mesh and the experiences of those people at the centre of the report.
Report highlights inequity of mental health service quality and outcomes for Māori
Published: December 2019This Monitoring Indicator Update tracks progress made on key measures regarding the quality of mental health and addiction services over five years to 2017 and 2017/18.