20 Jan 2016

Free CALD cultural competency courses

Free CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) competency training is now available to staff from New Zealand district health boards (DHB) and primary health organisations.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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:

24 Aug 2014

Safety considerations for parents when purchasing second-hand infant sleep products

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.