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Your Rights
As our patient, and under the Health and Disability Commissioner’s Code of Rights, you have the right to:
- Be treated with respect
- Be fully informed
- Freedom from discrimination, coercion, harassment and exploitation
- dignity and independence
- Services of an appropriate standard
- Effective communication
- Be fully informed
- Make an informed choice and give informed consent
- Support
- Respect of teaching or research
- Complain
If we don’t respect these, let us know and we’ll do everything we can to put it right.
Support in the process
If you need support or help with making a complaint, you can contact the office of the Health and Disability Commissioner and ask for an advocate.
www.hdc.org.nz
0800 555 050