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• Commission is one year old

  Commission is one year old

  30th Dec 2011

  Professor Alan Merry, Chair of the Health Quality & Safety Commission, celebrates the Commission’s first birthday with Board members and staff.

• Expressions of interest – Clinical Leader, Reportable Events

  Expressions of interest – Clinical Leader, Reportable Events

  20th Dec 2011, Reportable Events Featured

  Expressions of interest are sought from professionals working in the health and disability sector, to support the work of the Commission in its role in relation to reportable events and serious and sentinel events.

• Expressions of interest sought – Clinical Lead, Global Trigger Tools

  Expressions of interest sought – Clinical Lead, Global Trigger Tools

  20th Dec 2011, Other Topics

  Expressions of interest are sought from professionals across the health and disability sector to support the work of the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) in relation to the development of its Global Trigger Tool work programme.

• Medication Safety Programme December 2011 Update

  Medication Safety Programme December 2011 Update

  16th Dec 2011, Medication Safety Featured

  These updates provide more detailed information about the Medication Safety programme,

• Quarterly awards for outstanding hand hygiene work
  

  Quarterly awards for outstanding hand hygiene work

  14th Dec 2011, Infection Prevention & Control

  Hand Hygiene New Zealand is seeking nominations for its first ever quarterly hand hygiene awards.

• Health Quality & Safety Commission December newsletter
  

  Health Quality & Safety Commission December newsletter

  13th Dec 2011

  The Commission's December newsletter is now available.

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology: Maternal Mortality

  American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology: Maternal Mortality

  13th Dec 2011, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee

  This article in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology looks at the reduction of maternal deaths over the last 100 years

• Classifying contributory factors and potentially avoidable maternal deaths in NZ
  

  Classifying contributory factors and potentially avoidable maternal deaths in NZ

  13th Dec 2011, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee Featured

  Beyond the numbers: classifying contributory factors and potentially avoidable maternal deaths in New Zealand, 2006 - 2009. Cynthia Farquhar, Lynn Sadler, Vicki Masson, Gillian Bohm, Alastair Haslam

• The Triple Aim

  The Triple Aim

  12th Dec 2011

  The Health Quality & Safety Commission works towards the New Zealand Triple Aim for quality improvement.

• Guidelines for Applications for a Director-General's Waiver to allow Electronic Prescribing

  Guidelines for Applications for a Director-General's Waiver to allow Electronic Prescribing

  10th Dec 2011, Medication Safety

  On 1 August 2011, the waiver provision in the Medicines Regulations 1984 was updated.