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.
15 Oct 2018, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The Connecting Care Project will see health service providers, consumers, and their families and whānau working together to better understand and improve the experience of transitions between or within providers.
15 Oct 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
A new report has found that infections following hip and knee replacements have fallen, meaning reduced harm to patients.
11 Oct 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
Most patients feel their GP or practice nurse treats them with kindness, understanding and respect, results of a survey by the Health Quality & Safety Commission and Ministry of Health show.
8 Oct 2018, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Kaumātua and Māori cultural advisor Wi Keelan says Mental Health Awareness Week, which starts today, provides an opportunity to focus on the positive aspects of Māori wellbeing.
5 Oct 2018, Building Leadership & Capability
The only New Zealand scientific symposium focused specifically on the science of health and disability care improvement by highlighting research and methods.
3 Oct 2018, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Auckland University of Technology students Nicole Oliveri and Alisi Fangupo have been learning about the challenges of the mental health and addiction sector during their placement with the mental health and addiction quality improvement programme.