Quality Improvement Scientific Symposium 2023
About the event
Our 2023 symposium will be an in-person event at the Holiday Inn Auckland Airport, providing opportunities for attendees to:
- share what has been learned from applying scientific methods to health care improvement
- network with like-minded colleagues
- discuss challenges in applying and disseminating scientific approaches to health care improvement
- create a common understanding of how to apply and disseminate scientific methods to improve health and health care.
Registration for this event is open now and programme details will be announced soon.
Call for abstracts
The call for abstracts will open on Friday 01 May 2023. If you have any questions before then, please contact the events team on events@hqsc.govt.nz.
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is hosting its 8th scientific symposium for health care quality improvement practitioners.
The theme for the 2023 symposium is: Whole-systems quality: Better together.
| 1 May 2023 | Call for abstracts |
| 4 August 2023 | Abstract deadline |
| 8 September 2023 | Notification of acceptance |
| 29 September 2023 | Deadline for presenter registrations |
| 8 November 2023 | Quality Improvement Scientific Symposium |
Three (3) categories are open for abstraction submissions: seed, sprouts and plants.
Seeds
‘Seeds’ are ideas which have just been sown. They are promising ideas and ways for improving care, which are too young to have results. The symposium is your opportunity to seek input, inspire collaboration and motivate action at an early stage. Seed proposals are only for poster or storyboard presentations.
Sprouts
Your initiative is a ‘sprout’ if it is underway and has some early results but not yet showing sustained improvement over time. Include ‘how-to’ tips, clearly explain, and demonstrate the improvement methodology and any lessons you can share with symposium participants. Your initiative does not have to be considered a success – failures provide valuable learning opportunities too!
Plants
Your initiative is a ‘plant’ if it is complete with results that demonstrate changes in processes and outcomes and shows sustained improvement over time with potential for, or has achieved, spread. Include ‘how-to’ tips, clearly explain, and demonstrate the improvement methodology and any and lessons you can share with symposium participants.
‘Sprouts’ and ‘plants’ are for oral presentation or poster/storyboard display. Proposals that are not accepted for oral presentation may be offered the opportunity to display a poster or storyboard instead
The theme for the 2023 symposium is based on the Wai2575 principles and you will need to select one of the following themes which your presentation will best fit:
- pātuitanga (partnership)
- active protection
- options
- tino rangatiratanga
- equity
2023 important dates
| 1 May 2023 | Call for abstracts |
| 4 August 2023 | Abstract deadline |
| 8 September 2023 | Notification of acceptance |
| 29 September 2023 | Deadline for presenter registrations |
| 8 November 2023 | Quality Improvement Scientific Symposium |
2023 Abstract categories
Three (3) categories are open for abstraction submissions: seed, sprouts and plants.
Seeds
‘Seeds’ are ideas which have just been sown. They are promising ideas and ways for improving care, which are too young to have results. The symposium is your opportunity to seek input, inspire collaboration and motivate action at an early stage. Seed proposals are only for poster or storyboard presentations.
Sprouts
Your initiative is a ‘sprout’ if it is underway and has some early results but not yet showing sustained improvement over time. Include ‘how-to’ tips, clearly explain, and demonstrate the improvement methodology and any lessons you can share with symposium participants. Your initiative does not have to be considered a success – failures provide valuable learning opportunities too!
Plants
Your initiative is a ‘plant’ if it is complete with results that demonstrate changes in processes and outcomes and shows sustained improvement over time with potential for, or has achieved, spread. Include ‘how-to’ tips, clearly explain, and demonstrate the improvement methodology and any and lessons you can share with symposium participants.
‘Sprouts’ and ‘plants’ are for oral presentation or poster/storyboard display. Proposals that are not accepted for oral presentation may be offered the opportunity to display a poster or storyboard instead
2023 Abstract themes
The theme for the 2023 symposium is based on the Wai2575 principles and you will need to select one of the following themes which your presentation will best fit:
- pātuitanga (partnership)
- active protection
- options
- tino rangatiratanga
- equity