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30 Jun 2015
New DHB guide for consumer engagement
The Health Quality & Safety Commission's Partners in Care programme has released a new guide promoting consumer engagement in New Zealand district health boards (DHBs).
Partners in Care
23 Jun 2015
Report shows significant reduction in stillbirths
The rate of babies dying from 20 weeks of pregnancy to 28 days old (perinatal mortality rate) has fallen to the lowest number since reporting began in New Zealand in 2007.
Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
26 Mar 2015
Open Book reports share lessons learned from adverse events
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Adverse Events Learning programme is working with providers to share lessons learned following review of adverse events.
Adverse events
10 Nov 2014
Improving medication error reporting and learning in primary care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission and the New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre (NZPhvC) are encouraging wider reporting and learning from medication errors and near-miss events in primary care.
Medicines (Reducing harm)
05 Sep 2014
Update on the safe use of opioids collaborative
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Medication Safety programme welcomes the members of the national safe use of opioids collaborative:
Medicines (Reducing harm)
24 Aug 2014
Safety considerations for parents when purchasing second-hand infant sleep products
Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
19 Aug 2014
Legislative change supports further work on the New Zealand electronic Prescription Service
New legislative changes will allow prescriptions for controlled drugs to be generated electronically instead of handwritten.
Medicines (Reducing harm)
25 Jun 2014
Improving teamwork and communication to further the patient safety culture
The Commission is continuing its focus on reducing patient harm during the perioperative period by encouraging improved teamwork and communication across the operating theatre team.
Safe Surgery NZ
30 Apr 2014
Surgical Safety Checklist features on TV3
3News featured a story on its Firstline show about the importance of using the surgical safety checklist.
Safe Surgery NZ
28 Mar 2014
Using trigger tools in primary care
An article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal recently, shows that trigger tools are a useful way of measuring and tracking events that result in patient harm in primary care.
Adverse events
27 Mar 2014
Fatigue and familiarity push up rural crash risks
Fatigue is one of the most significant risk factors in rural road deaths according to a recent analysis of crashes involving dairy farmers and their employees.
Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
29 Jan 2014
Medication reconciliation during transitions of care as a patient safety strategy
This review from the Annals of Internal Medicine discusses the use of medication reconciliation as a patient safety tool to reduce the risk of medication errors when patient transfers occur in hospital.
Medicines (Reducing harm)