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My year of falls learning

2 May 2018 | Reducing harm from falls
Tagged Reducing harm Falls

Falls was an entirely new area for me when I was appointed to a new nurse educator role at Lakes District Health Board (DHB) in May 2017.

Falls champions clinical team May 2018
Simulation training is the next step for safer surgery

4 Apr 2018 | Safe Surgery NZ
Tagged safe surgery checklist simulation

The World Health Organization checklist was created to start our work and build a foundation of safety for our patients. It established the important role of teamwork and communication in providing high quality safe care.

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Whose fault is it anyway?

28 Mar 2018 | Medication Safety
Tagged medication safety patient story

A patient story of preventable harm. Every now and then a personal story comes along to shock us. It forces us to shake our heads and demand an answer. It calls us to action.

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Zero seclusion: It’s about teamwork

14 Mar 2018 | Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Tagged mental health & addiction seclusion

The mental health and addiction sector is aware that the goal we have set of eliminating seclusion is ambitious. Internationally there is evidence that seclusion causes harm to those who receive it, and it is recognised as contravening basic human rights. Yet we know the practice still continues in many of our district health board in-patient units today.

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Why eliminating seclusion by 2020 is an aspirational goal

27 Feb 2018 | Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Tagged mental health & addiction seclusion

The Commission recently announced that our mental health and addiction quality improvement team will work alongside Te Pou, the national KPI programme and DHB mental health and addiction services to achieve the aspirational goal of Zero seclusion: towards eliminating seclusion by 2020.

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Gauging success for surgical site infection improvement

21 Dec 2017 | Infection Prevention & Control
Tagged SSIIP

This article provides a summary of an interim evaluation of the surgical site infection imporovement programme, and makes the point that a key aspect of many quality improvement programmes is that their success can’t be evaluated over a short time-span.

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Time to ride ‘perfect wave’ of change in mental health...just don’t leave consumers on the beach

30 Nov 2017 | Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Tagged mental health & addiction quality improvement consumers consumer engagement

Shaun McNeil, the Commission's national consumer engagement advisor mental health and addictions, shares his thoughts on challenges for the sector. 

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Cake and tigers – context matters for primary care quality improvement success

1 Nov 2017 | Primary Care
Tagged Primary Care

Dr Susan Wells writes about the importance of models such as the Model for Understanding Success in Quality (MUSIQ).

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Primary care in New Zealand – time for its place in the sun

17 Oct 2017 | Primary Care
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Dr Susan Wells reflects on the importance of strong primary care systems.

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