19 Nov 2018, Patient Deterioration
Better patient experience and outcomes lie at the very heart of an innovative service launched by the Waitemata DHB and supported by the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
18 Nov 2018, Reducing Harm from Falls
The 8th biennial Australian and New Zealand falls prevention conference is being held on 18–20 November 2018 in Hobart, Tasmania.
16 Nov 2018, Patient Deterioration
We are pleased to announce two new staff have joined Alex, Laura and Emma on the patient deterioration programme team
15 Nov 2018, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission recently facilitated a successful workshop for members of local child and youth mortality review panels. The workshop took place in Nelson on 6–7 November 2018.
12 Nov 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
The latest inpatient survey shows a significant increase in the number of patients who felt hospital staff included their family and whānau in discussions about their care.
12 Nov 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
With very few new antibiotics having been developed in recent years, health agencies say their responsible use is absolutely critical to people’s health.
8 Nov 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
Māori and Pacific peoples are less likely to receive appropriate treatment for gout, despite being significantly more likely to be affected by the disease than other ethnicities.
8 Nov 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 18 October–7 November 2018 is now available online.
7 Nov 2018, Partners in Care
The Health Consumer Advisory Service presented at the Health Quality & Safety Commission's Partners in Care consumer network meeting last month.
6 Nov 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
This week is patient experience survey week and people are being encouraged to have their say about the health care they receive.
6 Nov 2018, Partners in Care
Counties Manukau Health is calling for new consumer council members to contribute to their vision of providing care that is truly patient and family/whānau centred.
5 Nov 2018, Patient Safety Week
It’s Patient Safety Week and who would have thought germs could be this cute!
5 Nov 2018, Patient Safety Week
Antibiotics are not always the answer. That’s the message from 12-year-old Libby Thompson from Cust School in Rangiora, winner of the 2018 national antibiotic awareness poster competition.
31 Oct 2018, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Emerge Aotearoa is delighted to be hosting the 13th Biennial Asia Pacific (AsPac) International Mental Health and Addiction Conference, Healthy Futures: Inspiration, Inclusion and Integration in Auckland, New Zealand from 31 October to 1 November 2018.
29 Oct 2018, Partners in Care
Over the past few weeks, our Partners in Care team was invited to meet with some of the district health board’s consumer councils to talk about the Commission’s consumer engagement work.
26 Oct 2018, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Discovering that just 20 percent of their mental health and addiction (MHA) service consumers were using 80 percent of the allocated funds provided the impetus for a quality improvement project at MidCentral DHB.
26 Oct 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
A4 flyers promoting the patient experience survey are now available as PDFs in English, te reo Māori, Samoan and Tongan languages.
26 Oct 2018, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Janice Bowers, clinical nurse manager at Whanganui DHB has been leading a project for ICAMHAS (Infant, child and adolescent mental health and addiction services) to improve the way the department manages service transitions.
26 Oct 2018
Professor Alan Merry, chair of the Health Quality & Safety Commission board, has been appointed Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland.
18 Oct 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 27 September–17 October 2018 is now available online.