NZ Canterbury District Health Board 2007 Misuse (Q12616)
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NZ Canterbury District Health Board 2007 Misuse
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A data breach risk event
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January 2007
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A former CDHB patient lodged civil proceedings with the High Court in Christchurch on July 23, seeking a combined $110,000 in damages from the doctor and CDHB. The doctor, Valerie Pollard, twice accessed the womans mental health records in 2007 ahead of a Family Court dispute involving the womans partner and Pollards girlfriend. When Pollard inadvertently learned the woman had been admitted to Hillmorton Hospital, she disclosed the information to a mutual friend and again at a Family Court hearing. Pollard was censured and fined in 2010 by the New Zealand Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal after admitting professional misconduct. She resigned from the CDHB in 2009. (English)
