30 Jan 2011, Medication Safety
Quality improvement attempts to change clinician behaviour and, through these changes, lead to improved patient outcomes. The methodological quality of studies evaluating the effectiveness of quality improvement interventions is frequently low.
27 Jan 2011
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care's 2010 report Windows into Safety and Quality in Health Care 2010 provides perspectives on aspects of the safety and quality of health care in 2010.
25 Jan 2011, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The recent establishment of the Health Quality & Safety Commission is the latest step on the journey to ensure New Zealanders get the best possible healthcare. Principal Advisor Quality Improvement Gillian Bohm has been there from the start.
19 Jan 2011, Medication Safety
Following a medication error which involved potassium chloride, Capital & Coast DHB introduced a number of changes to control the storage, supply and administration of intravenous potassium.
18 Jan 2011, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Dr Janice Wilson has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Health Quality & Safety Commission – set up to implement the Government’s focus on safer health services for all New Zealanders.
17 Jan 2011, Medication Safety
Beth Loe, National Co-ordinator on the District Health Boards New Zealand Safe and Quality Use of Medicines Group, is co-ordinating the design of a standardised medication chart for adult medication and surgical inpatients to be introduced nationally.
13 Jan 2011, Adverse Events
Whanganui DHB has implemented a process for notifying urgent after-hours laboratory results for patients who are not in hospital – that is, those patients who have been to the emergency department, had day surgery, or are outpatients.
11 Jan 2011, Adverse Events
A database has been developed on which all elective referrals sent from MidCentral DHB to another DHB are recorded, and unacknowledged referrals flagged. Referrals from the DHB to the regional cancer treatment service are also entered into the database.
11 Jan 2011, Health Quality & Safety Commission
With the Health Quality & Safety Commission now confirmed in legislation, we are looking forward to a productive and exciting 2011.
16 Dec 2010, Adverse Events
Most DHBs are using the WHO Safe Surgery Checklist in some or all of their operating theatres.
1 Dec 2010, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Ensuring safer health services for all New Zealanders is the focus of the Health Quality & Safety Commission, which has been confirmed in legislation.
22 Nov 2010, Adverse Events
HQSC media conference launching Serious and Sentinel Events 2009/2010 Report
17 Nov 2010, Adverse Events
The Commission has released the 2009/2010 report of serious and sentinel events across the country’s District Health Boards (DHBs).