Today we released our Serious Adverse Events Report which outlines Auckland DHB’s Serious Adverse Events for the 2017-18 year. Adverse events are events which generally result in harm to patients.
A Serious Adverse Event is an event that has led to significant additional treatment, is life threatening or has led to an unexpected death or major loss of function.
While we always work to provide the very best care for all our patients, risk is an inherent aspect of healthcare. Occasionally patients experience harm during the course of their treatment, and our policy is to be transparent about any such events so that patients and their families know what happened, and also so that we can learn from these events and prevent them from happening again.
You can find the report under planning documents here.