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Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 88 online now

Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission

Ngā ihirangi | In this issue

Whakapai i te kounga me te haumaru | Quality and safety improvement

  • Patient story: Matthew Gunter
  • Patient Safety Week resource orders opening soon
  • Co-design projects feature at Bay of Plenty DHB grand round
  • Improving West Coast access to care and the journey for individuals and families with diabetes, prediabetes and high cardiovascular risk

Whakaheke mōrearea | Reducing harm

  • Taking your medicine safely – brochure reprinted and available to order
  • Call to make osteoporosis plans a priority for hip fracture patients leaving hospital
  • Webinar: Moving the goal posts – modifying the New Zealand early warning score
  • Building on the safe use of opioids national formative collaborative

Pūrongo me te whakamārama | Reporting and commentary

  • Suicide Mortality Review Committee responds to increase in annual suicide figures
  • Appendix to article titled 'Social Entrapment: A Realistic Understanding of the Criminal Offending of Primary Victims of Intimate Partner Violence'
  • Commission vacancies

Ngā hui huhua | Events

  • Upcoming events calendar 2018
  • BMJ International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
  • Adverse event review workshop
  • Quality improvement scientific symposium
  • 13th Biennial Asia Pacific International Mental Health and Addiction Conference
  • 8th Biennial Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Conference
  • Patient deterioration New Zealand: Current state and future developments
  • Building resilience for safety – a workshop with Professor Erik Hollnagel
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