Taranaki DHB`s `collective failure` preceded heart attack victim`s death, watchdog finds
(WorldNews Health)

The Taranaki District Health Board has been found to have provided a very poor standard of care to an elderly man following a heart attack. In 2015, the 68-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department of a public hospital, where blood tests and an electrocardiogram showed that he had suffered a heart attack, according to a report released today by Health and Disability Commissioner Anthony Hill. He was admitted to a general medical ward, where he was monitored through remote cardiac...