19 Aug 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The Choosing Wisely campaign is consulting on Choosing Wisely recommendations for pharmacy in New Zealand.
13 Aug 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 23 July–12 August 2020 is now available online.
12 Aug 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is the latest signatory of the government Accessibility Charter – a commitment to providing accessible information and online tools to all disabled people.
7 Aug 2020, National Trauma Network
The new national trauma rehabilitation quality improvement project, which aims to understand and improve rehabilitation for major trauma patients, is underway.
7 Aug 2020, Partners in Care
A number of health topics were covered in a seminar for members of Auckland’s Korean community run by Hyejung Kim, a member of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s consumer network.
7 Aug 2020, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) Board is seeking two members to join the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee.
7 Aug 2020, Primary Care
A project to understand why Tongan diabetes patients were reluctant to begin insulin treatment has resulted in improved medication uptake, and many are now being treated for other, previously undiagnosed conditions, thanks to greater engagement.
31 Jul 2020, Primary Care
Whakakotahi is one of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s key initiatives in primary care. A final evaluation of Whakakotahi was completed by Synergia and builds on the annual interim reports completed in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
31 Jul 2020, Primary Care
Wanting better management of her baby daughter’s severe facial eczema was behind a Hamilton practice nurse creating a clinic that is delivering great results for the practice’s under five-year-olds suffering from the painful skin condition.
24 Jul 2020, Building Leadership & Capability
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has partnered with the Australasian Institute of Clinical Governance (AICG) to provide eight sponsored places on the online AICG Certificate in Clinical Governance course.
24 Jul 2020, ACP information for consumers
Now more than ever it is important to encourage people to start an advance care plan and think about their future health and wellbeing. Many ACP staff who were seconded to help with the COVID-19 pandemic are coming back into their ACP roles.
23 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
A survey about people’s experiences using mental health and addiction (MHA) services has found many people felt they were treated with respect and things were well explained to them; but that their cultural and spiritual needs were not always met.
23 Jul 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 2–22 July 2020 is now available online.
22 Jul 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The report Choosing Wisely means Choosing Equity recommends a number of changes to make the Choosing Wisely campaign more effective for Māori.
17 Jul 2020, Partners in Care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is running two webinars to provide guidance to the district health board (DHB) managers and staff responsible for implementing the new consumer engagement quality and safety marker.
17 Jul 2020, Partners in Care
New Zealand has a mixed record when it comes to the rights of disabled people, according to a report from the New Zealand Independent Monitoring Mechanism (IMM) on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Jenny MacFadgen talks about how she found the mental health and addiction quality improvement facilitator course, the project she completed and how the overall experience has influenced her work.
16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Kerry Weir-Smith talks about how she found the mental health and addiction quality improvement facilitator course, the project she completed and how the overall experience has influenced her work.
16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Daniel McClean talks about the mental health and addiction quality improvement facilitator course, the project he completed and how the overall experience has influenced his work.
16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Congratulations to the 18 participants who completed this year’s Health Quality & Safety Commission mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement facilitator course.