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Health Quality & Safety Commission e-update, Issue 56 online now

Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission
17 August 2016

The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update for the period of 16 September–16 October 2016 is now available online.

In this issue:

  • SNOMED conference – the global language of health care
  • Everyone needs to have a conversation about death and dying
  • Deadline extended for advance care planning (ACP) national forum poster submissions
  • Management of the ACP programme and training
  • Consumer reports from the 2016 APAC Forum
  • Vicki Culling awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowship
  • Commission celebrates infection prevention work in International Infection Prevention Week
  • Surgical site infection orthopaedic report
  • Commission's falls prevention work profiled at international forum
  • Inaugural hip fracture registry annual report released
  • Supporting World Osteoporosis Day on 20 October 2016
  • Developing a national approach to the measurement and reporting of pressure injuries
  • Update on the patient deterioration programme.

Read issue 56 of the Commission e-update.


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