NEWS HR
April 3, 2017
Christchurch Hospital has beefed up security after a nurse was attacked on her way to work. A hospital spokesman confirmed that the victim is a nurse and that “extra surveillance” has been put on in the wake of the attack.
March 31, 2017
Prying into patient files cost two Waikato Hospital staff their jobs and prompted two others to resign. Twelve privacy or confidentiality breaches have been committed by Waikato staff since 2012. Offences range from unauthorised snooping on medical records, to misdirected emails.
March 16, 2017
A Christchurch dementia patient is living in a new care facility after she took a rest-home staffer’s unlocked car and drove it to Ashburton. The elderly woman took the vehicle from the The Oaks Rest Home in Riccarton earlier this month and drove south for more than an hour before she was stopped. New Zealand Aged Care Association chief executive Simon Wallace said the woman was living in the general rest home at the time of the incident, but had since been moved to a secure facility in Wellington.
March 15, 2017
A recidivist fraudster who impersonates police before stealing credit cards has been jailed after fleecing nearly $10,000 from his unsuspecting victims. Jason Pope, 40, of Auckland, was this afternoon jailed for 4 years and 9 months on a total of 56 charges from offending in Hamilton and Te Awamutu during 2015. Pope’s ruse was similar for each of his eight victims – he dressed in blue and would be clutching a folder with “police” written on the front of it before talking his way into their homes by saying there had been burglaries in the area. He would then steal personal belongings – including wallets, purses, cellphones – and then call the victims back purporting to be police saying they had arrested the burglars. He would then coax PIN numbers from the victims and go on a spending spree. All up, Pope spent $9543.90 belonging to rest home residents, including from Hamilton’s Hilda Ross Retirement Village. In sentencing him to prison, Judge Spear said Pope’s conduct was that of a classic conman.
March 14, 2017
A caregiver caught on hidden camera slapping an elderly rest home resident has been convicted of assault. Sonali Ananta Deo, 23, asked to be discharged without conviction so she could train as a nurse but Judge Kim Saunders said the offending was too serious to avoid a conviction. Deo was caught slapping Piri Hemi, then 86, on the face and hip in June last year when he was a resident at Cascades Retirement Home in Hamilton.
February 20, 2017
A Christchurch man has apologised for ripping off elderly clients at the estate management company where he worked. Robert Thomas Clark, 44, has repaid $21,000 of the $66,634 he stole from client accounts at Perpetual Guardian, where he was a client manager.
February 16, 2017
If Helen Gleeson had been sitting in her lounge shortly after 7pm on Tuesday, she might not still be alive. Thankfully the 78-year-old was in her bedroom when a red Toyota Camry careened through the corner of her home at the Bupa Winara Retirement Village in Waikanae, north of Wellington. “I got a hell of a fright,” she said. “At first I thought it was an earthquake, but the ground wasn’t moving so then I decided it must be a meteorite.
February 16, 2017
A beloved family dog has been electrocuted while playing in a faulty fountain. The dog often played in the small fountain in front of the Evelyn Page retirement village in Orewa, which she passed on her regular walks. But when the dog jumped into the water on January 26, she received an electric shock and died.
