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Siobhan Downes Quake ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● ● Canterbury earthquake recovery boss Roger Sutton has gone from being all about the rebuild to all about the regrowth. The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (Cera) chief executive had his head shaved at stress Parliament yesterday as part of Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand’s Shave for a Cure appeal. Prime Minister John Key initiated the haircut by chopping off Sutton’s ponytail. ‘‘This is actually quite a lot of fun,’’ Key said, surrounded by ‘not an amused school students and tourists who had gathered to watch. Associate Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Amy Adams also got in on the Clip go the shears: Roger Sutton is action, taking the razor and giving transformed from ‘‘Shrek’’ to the ‘‘Bald Sutton a stripe down the middle of Eagle’’ at the hands of Prime Minister excuse’ his head. John Key. Key said the style gave Sutton a ‘‘slightly mad professor look’’. much, much more difficult than ‘‘I don’t know if Cantabrians any of us can imagine.’’ Report on rest-home would like the head of Cera Since signing up for the looking like Albert Einstein,’’ he fundraiser last week, Sutton has death slams poor care quipped. raised more than $12,000. While Key had nicknamed Leukaemia & Blood Cancer Sarah-Jane O’Connor siderable challenges for rest Sutton ‘‘Shrek’’ New Zealand sarah-jane.o’[email protected] ● ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● ● homes. – after the chief executive ‘‘However, I do not accept that merino sheep – Pru Etcheverry Earthquake stress is no excuse for these difficult circumstances jus- for his luscious said Key was a rest home’s poor care of a woman tify the suboptimal care that [the long locks, he probably the who died after several weeks of woman] received at Middlepark in might have to ‘‘most high- declining health, a damning report 2011,’’ Baker said. rechristen him profile says. ‘‘In my view, that care was the ‘‘the Bald hairdresser’’ Deputy Heath and Disability result of both systemic and indi- Eagle’’, he said. they had ever Commissioner Theo Baker, in a vidual failures that were not Sutton, who had for a shave. report released yesterday, found directly linked to the earthquake said his last Every day ’s Middlepark Rest and its effects.’’ haircut had six New Home and Village failed to care One of the woman’s daughters, been in Zealanders are properly for the woman, who died cited in the report, said the family November, diagnosed with in April 2011. was ‘‘deeply shattered’’ by the poor lamented there a blood cancer The home is owned by Oceania care. ‘‘Not only at the degree of being no mirror or related Group. Its chief executive, Guy inappropriate care but also what on hand for him condition. Eady, said the firm accepted the we consider was, at times, a to check out his Leukaemia & commissioner’s findings and was blatant lack of care, dignity, new ’do. Blood Cancer ‘‘deeply sorry for the family’s respect and compassion. No words ‘‘It feels Before: Roger Sutton with his flowing New Zealand is loss’’. will ever be able to convey the dis- much colder locks. the national Baker said that in 2011 the tress to us of seeing, hearing, read- already,’’ he charity woman, in her 80s, became sick ing and knowing Mum did go said, as his trademark curls blew dedicated to supporting patients with a stomach bug and suffered through what she did.’’ away in a northerly and their families. vomiting and diarrhoea. Eady said the communication over the Parliament grounds. He The charity does not receive Two weeks after becoming sick and care when the woman died had been inspired by friends and government funding, and the she was diagnosed with a urinary was ‘‘far removed from our usual colleagues who had suffered from money raised from the appeal tract infection and was started on standards’’. leukaemia and blood cancer, he helps fund patient support, antibiotics. Records showed that ‘‘Our own investigation shows said. research, awareness and she was given only three days of that our staff members were under ‘‘It just feels like the right thing advocacy. antibiotics, despite being pressure and exercised clouded After: Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (Cera) chief executive Roger Sutton tests out his new smooth look after his to do, to show a bunch of support The Shave for a Cure appeal prescribed for six. Within the next judgment at an extremely testing head was shaved for charity on the steps of Parliament. 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Fairfax NZ few days, the woman had five falls time when they were trying to but incident forms recorded incor- cope with the severe after-effects rect information and were not and aftershocks of the Canterbury properly signed, Baker said. earthquakes.’’ Rest home staff discussed with Eady said taking on extra Call to spend land-damage payouts fixing sections each other that the woman patients after the earthquake, required palliative care, though no because the home was not badly conversations had been held with damaged, put further pressure on Marta Steeman to the insurers’ view and it could Read inside likely apply to existing Canterbury [email protected] [Legislative ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● ● the family, her doctors or the staff, but this was not an excuse for ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● ● be considered as part of the review land damage claims. ❯❯❯❯ A2 Rates rise hits flood victims woman. failure to communicate and follow changes] of EQC legislation. ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● ● ‘‘It can’t be retrospective,’’ The woman’s family were policies. Insurers want a law change so in EQC had done a great job, Brownlee said of legislative aware that she was on antibiotics, ‘‘Our systems and processes future people are forced to use can’t be largely for the future of the city, in ment policies at the time of the changes. but were not kept informed about must allow for extraordinary cir- EQC land-damage payouts on fix- retrospective. understanding the geological con- quakes, they had to replace to the The result of the EQC review the falls and her further deterio- cumstances and stresses such as ing their sections rather than ditions. Brownlee said there were new building code, which was was ‘‘not too far off’’ and there ration. those Middlepark and the people of pocketing the money or spending Earthquake Recovery Minister several categories of land damage requiring stronger foundations. would be a public process before At 3am one day, her daughter Canterbury were experiencing at it elsewhere. that EQC was making land claim ‘‘If understandably someone is any changes to the Earthquake insisted that her mother be taken that time, and we have taken that Current law requires the Earth- assessments on. getting a payment because that Commission Act were made, to hospital. Upon arrival, one of into account in our review and quake Commission to compensate have to do anything to the land. Others were land that had: land does have increased vulner- Brownlee said. the ambulance staff said the changes.’’ for land damage, but it does not You can’t just build on land that is ❯❯❯❯ Increased vulnerability to ability and that vulnerability is EQC has settled 79,000 land woman should have been taken to The home had reviewed its require owners to spend the pay- stuffed. So we think land compen- liquefaction. being substantially mitigated by claims so far, of about 140,000, at a hospital earlier. systems and made changes accord- ment on fixing the land. sation should be directed to land ❯❯❯❯ An increased vulnerability to virtue of the new type of construc- cost of $17 million and has said it At the hospital it was found the ing to advice from the Health and Insurance council chief execu- remediation because that’s what it flooding because of the tion, then I think it is not aimed to settle them all by the end infection had spread into her Disability Commission. tive Tim Grafton said the Canter- is about . . . and it should be earthquakes. unreasonable to expect that that of the year. bloodstream. She died about 10 ‘‘Since these changes have been bury earthquakes had shown there recognised in law.’’ ‘‘The question the review has to payment would contribute to the EQC spokesman Iain Butler days later. made, further audits have been could be situations where land was Land damage payments were consider is, is the cover adequate new type of construction. In the said properties with increased sus- Baker said staff failed to follow carried out which show we are not totally destroyed and it was introduced after the 1979 Abbot- and does it protect the building end it is about someone investing ceptibility to liquefaction and to communication and documen- meeting the required standards possible to rebuild on it if it was sford land slip in Dunedin, which platform as it was originally in the preservation of their own flooding had not been dealt with. tation procedures. and will assist our staff in provid- repaired. ruined 69 houses. No-one died. intended to?’’ equity.’’ EQC was still working on identify- Baker accepted the effects of the ing the exceptional care we expect Grafton said: ‘‘So technically Earthquake Minister Gerry Brownlee said that because Brownlee signalled any ing those properties and the meth- February 2011 quake provided con- for all our residents.’’ there’s the payment and you don’t Brownlee said he was sympathetic insurers generally had replace- changes to the EQC Act would not odology to settle those claims.

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