New hand hygiene website
16 Nov 2011, Infection Prevention & Control
CLEAN HANDS SAVE LIVES New website promotes hand hygiene patient safety message
16 Nov 2011, Infection Prevention & Control
CLEAN HANDS SAVE LIVES New website promotes hand hygiene patient safety message
11 Nov 2011, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Sudden unexpected infant death—no more “stunned amazement”!
7 Nov 2011, Health Quality Intelligence
Quality Accounts are annual reports to the public from providers of health and disability services about the quality of the services they provide.
6 Nov 2011, Medication Safety
Making sure you are taking the right medicines: An important guide for people coming into hospital
4 Nov 2011
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has appointed Richard Hamblin as its new Director of Health Quality Evaluation.
3 Nov 2011, Medication Safety
Timaru Hospital is rolling out the National Medication Chart this week, joining other hospitals around the country who have been introducing it over the past six months.
2 Nov 2011, Partners in Care
The New Zealand Guidelines Group has developed the attached report to the Health Quality & Safety Commission: Health Literacy and Medication Safety - Environmental scan of tools, resources, systems, repositories, processes and personnel.
31 Oct 2011, Medication Safety
The Health Quality & Safety Commission recently held two national medication safety workshops.
29 Oct 2011, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
Newsletter
29 Oct 2011, Medication Safety
These support the Commission’s Medication Safety programme by raising awareness of the importance of medicine reconciliation and the process involved in reconciling a patient’s medicines.
22 Oct 2011
The World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific has launched a patient safety curriculum guide for health educators to help stem the millions of deaths that occur globally each year from unsafe patient care and practices.
22 Oct 2011, Infection Prevention & Control
The colour of pillowcases at hospitals in Canterbury is helping to reduce the risk of infection and at the same time respect Maori cultural values.
12 Oct 2011, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
This week is Baby Loss Awareness Week.
7 Oct 2011, Partners in Care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has held the first of its quality forums in Auckland and Christchurch, as well as a workshop for senior health leaders.
5 Oct 2011
Expressions of Interest are being invited for the Health Quality & Safety Commission's Quality & Safety Challenge 2012.
4 Oct 2011, Medication Safety
General Practitioners and Community Pharmacists are needed for a medication error reporting pilot aimed at strengthening efforts to reduce and prevent medication errors in primary care
3 Oct 2011
This report collects together the testimony given by family and carers of people living in a care home, specifically around issues of medication safety.
28 Sep 2011
The September issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s newsletter is now available.
26 Sep 2011, Infection Prevention & Control
Reuters: The privacy curtains that separate care spaces in hospitals and clinics are frequently contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria, researchers said in Chicago this week.
23 Sep 2011, Other Topics
Better links between the health technology sector and the health service are behind a plan to establish a national health innovation hub, say Economic Development Minister David Carter and Health Minister Tony Ryall.