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Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 121 online now

Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission
24 September 2020

Ngā ihirangi | In this issue

Whakapai i te kounga te haumaru | Quality and safety improvement
  • Case study: What I wish I'd known when I received my bowel/rectal cancer diagnosis
  • Whānau Ora approach supporting diabetes self-management
  • Quality improvement project improves medicines access for remote patients
  • Primary care improvement case study: Improving access to health care among opioid substitution treatment clients in Nelson
  • Primary care improvement case study: Diabetes improvement project in the Hutt Valley
  • Webinar recording: Let's discuss pressure injuries
  • Evaluation of Gout Stop and Owning my Gout programmes
  • Update from the advance care planning programme – August 2020
Whakaheke mōrearea | Reducing harm
  • Profile on Kerry Weir-Smith, 2019/20 mental health and addiction quality improvement facilitator course graduate
  • New report lays foundation for project to reduce avoidable in-hospital deaths from critical bleeding
  • Surgical site infection rate is higher following hip and knee arthroplasty when cefazolin is underdosed
  • Updated pressure injury resources available
Pūrongo me te whakamārama | Reporting and commentary
  • Fourth annual update on increasing transparency in Aotearoa New Zealand health care
  • Brochure: Guide for trauma patients and whānau
  • Surgical procedures Atlas updated
Ngā hui huhua | Events
  • Ō tātou hiranga | What matters to us

Mahi ngātahi me mātou | Work with us

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