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Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 86 online now

Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission
26 July 2018

In this issue

Whakapai i te kounga me te haumaru | Quality and safety improvement

  • Video: Turoa Haronga shares his personal experiences of health care
  • Whakakotahi primary care quality improvement challenge
  • Blog: The flipside to problems
  • Undertaking child respiratory interventions in a community pharmacy

Whakaheke mōrearea | Reducing harm

  • National hand hygiene compliance report
  • Caution with the use of fentanyl patches
  • New initiative to improve care transitions for mental health consumers
  • Patient Safety Week update
  • Evidence-scoping review – service transitions for mental health and addiction
  • Reducing and eliminating seclusion in mental health inpatient services

Pūrongo me te whakamārama | Reporting and commentary

  • Reshaping the rules at Hutt Valley DHB
  • Reduction in 'just-in-case' IV cannula use delivers big benefits
  • Commission vacancy

Ngā hui huhua | Events

  • Upcoming events calendar 2018
  • All Together Better Health IX conference
  • BMJ International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
  • Adverse event review workshop
  • Quality improvement scientific symposium
  • 13th Biennial Asia Pacific International Mental Health and Addiction Conference
  • 8th Biennial Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Conference
  • Patient Deterioration New Zealand: Current state and future developments
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