Free NHS Institute seminars
29 Feb 2012
Free NHS Institute seminars about delivering large scale change
29 Feb 2012
Free NHS Institute seminars about delivering large scale change
28 Feb 2012, Medication Safety
Includes information about medicine-related incidents, errors and adverse drug reactions, their implications and offers recommendations on how to improve medication safety
24 Feb 2012
The Health Quality & Safety Commission would like to acknowledge the expertise and dedication of health professionals who have worked tirelessly in the past year to help people recover from injuries caused by Christchurch’s earthquake on 22 February last
24 Feb 2012
The Health Quality & Safety Commission would like to acknowledge the expertise and dedication of health professionals who have worked tirelessly in the past year to help people recover from injuries caused by Christchurch’s earthquake on 22 February last
24 Feb 2012, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission Board is seeking new member(s) for the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee
24 Feb 2012, Other Topics
The Young Foundation is a centre for social innovation, based in London. This briefing is on their work to achieve radical improvements in health and care.
24 Feb 2012, Medication Safety
This short DVD from the Health IT Cluster looks at how smart IT solutions are working at the front line of healthcare to support doctors, nurses and patients.
22 Feb 2012, Medication Safety
The European Medicines Agency is aware of three fatal cases of administration error that occurred with Velcade in the European Union, where the medicine was accidentally given intrathecally (into the space that surrounds the spinal cord) instead of intrav
20 Feb 2012, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The College of Nurses, Aotearoa actively welcomes the report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (POMRC).
20 Feb 2012, Adverse Events
A total of 377 serious and sentinel events occurred in New Zealand’s public hospitals in 2010/2011 – a rate of more than one for every day of the year.
20 Feb 2012, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) welcomes today’s (February 15) release of the inaugural report from New Zealand’s Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (POMRC)
20 Feb 2012, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons has welcomed the release of the inaugural Report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (POMRC).
20 Feb 2012, Adverse Events
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has finalised a national policy to help health and disability providers to report and investigate adverse events so preventable events are not repeated.
20 Feb 2012, Medication Safety
The NMC has now been implemented in 15 District Health Boards. A general review of the chart design is being undertaken in February/March 2012. Any change requests should have been submitted to your individual District Health Board (DHB).
18 Feb 2012, Infection Prevention & Control
Hand Hygiene New Zealand's Implementation Guidelines 2012 have now been published.
14 Feb 2012
Conversations that Count is a series of facilitated, hands-on workshops where members of the public and organisation representatives will have the opportunity to talk about their thoughts, experiences and opinions and help shape the resources for everyone
10 Feb 2012, Infection Prevention & Control
Hand Hygiene New Zealand will facilitate a training workshop for gold auditors in conjunction with Hand Hygiene Australia
10 Feb 2012
The symposium is the annual opportunity for sector discussion on current trends and emerging quality issues in general practice and primary care.
9 Feb 2012, Infection Prevention & Control
New England Journal of Medicine article takes a look at public health efforts to understand, treat, control, and prevent infectious diseases over the past two centuries.
8 Feb 2012, Infection Prevention & Control
An online course focusing on best practices for health care workers to prevent infection transmission.