This site covers both your rights as a patient as well as how to make a complaint against a Doctor.
Your rights as a patient . . . .
Your rights are covered and protected by by the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights.
The Code is also available on-line at the Commissioner’s Website :
. . . . Have a browse
Your rights under the Code
Patients have the following rights . . . . .
to be treated with respect
to not be discriminated against
to be kept fully informed
to be able to complain if their rights as a patient are breached.
How can a Consumer Advocate help me?
The role of the Health and Disability Consumer Advocate is to :
listen to your concerns
give you information about your legal rights
help you identify and clarify the issues
help you consider the options available to you
support you when you take action
The Advocate will focus on helping you and the health-care provider come to an agreement.
But the Advocate is not neutral – their job is to be an advocate for you, the patient.
You can contact an Advocate by phoning toll-free on:
0800 205 555, for the upper North Island
0800 423 638, for the central and lower North Island
0800 377 766, for the South Island
COMPLAINTS
The Code of Rights gives you options as to whom to make a complaint.
You can complain directly to the Health and Disability Commissioner but the Commissioner recommends that you first complain directly to the doctor or hospital concerned.
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"I used to hear all sorts of stories about how some officers lie in the course of their work and thought it was probably rubbish. In most cases, officers work with integrity under difficult circumstances. However, I've just had first hand experience of an officer's lack of honesty in relation to a traffic offence. A kindergarten released private information about ourselves and our child to a policeman investigating an incident. They may have done so lawfully, thats a matter for someone else to decide. But then that policeman, on his official jobsheet, outrightly lied and said the information had come from another party (we have proved it did not).
The kindy refuses to tell us the basis on which they felt release of the info was warranted (i.e. the story the officer spun to them), or what information they gave to him. Since the jobsheet was falsified, we cant get it from there either, and we hardly trust Mr Plod to give us an accurate account now, can we?
Are they not obliged to tell to explain their handling of our private information, lawfully or otherwise?
Is there a provision or statute anywhere that allows officers to provide false statements on official documents to cover-up where they obtained information from?
Netlaw replies: We do know of a number of cases where police officers have lied and falsified evidence. We sincerely believe it is very rare in NZ. However, if you have clear evidence of this, not just a difference of opinion, then you must report it to the Police Complaints Authortity as well as the Commissioner of Police."
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"I have heard that through the Will I am able to gift up to $27 500.00 of my property per year to some one that I want to inherit without paying gifting fees where do I find a template for this
Netlaw answers: Good morning,
You posted a blog on Netlaw this morning. We reply as follows.
Gift duty is not payable on money or assets which pass under your will. Therefore, you can leave $1,000,000 to someone in your will and it is not classified as a gift.
However, if you wanted to give someone $1 million during your lifetime then that would attract gift duty at 40 cents in the dollar (subject to a more specific calculation about a lesser amount of gift duty in some bands above $27,000) for any amount gifted over $27,000 per year. This is why gift programmes over a number of years have to be set up during the course of your lifetime to avoid or minimise paying gift duty.
But we repeat - money or assets left under a will are not treated as gifts for gift duty purposes. Nor are death duties payable any more. They were abolished well over 10 years ago.
