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Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest, Issue 68 online now

Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission
25 July 2017

In this issue (attached below):

Quality and safety improvement
  • Quality and safety improvement
  • Picton Opioid Prescription Agreement leader wins Open for leadership award
  • New mental health and addiction quality improvement programme
  • Latest updates to the Atlas of Healthcare Variation: Well Child/Tamariki Ora and maternity
  • Inaugural Whakakotahi group learning event
  • Factsheet on co-designing a patient, family and whānau escalation of care process
  • Patients and clinicians: Governing together
  • Primary care patient experience survey – methodology and procedures
Reporting and commentary
  • A Window on the Quality of New Zealand's Health Care 2017 published
  • Report focuses on interventions to improve the patient experience
  • Latest POMRC report finds ‘unacceptable’ difference in death rates
  • Call for applications and nominations for an anaesthetist to join the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
  • Rate of babies dying shortly before or after birth lowest reported
  • Family Violence Death Review Committee publishes new report: Fifth Report Data
  • Latest special report from Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee published: More needs to be done to prevent SUDI
  • Latest Open4Results published
  • ALERT 17: Alteplase or tenecteplase?
Events
  • Upcoming events calendar 2017
  • International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
  • Flag the date: Three-nation approach to reducing harm from falls
  • APAC Forum
  • Quality improvement scientific symposium 2017
  • Reducing harm
  • Participants sought for anti-staphylococcal bundle development
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