New portal for quality and safety marker data
22 Jan 2019, Health Quality Intelligence
The Commission has developed a new online portal to make it easier for district health boards (DHBs) to submit data for its quality and safety markers (QSMs).
22 Jan 2019, Health Quality Intelligence
The Commission has developed a new online portal to make it easier for district health boards (DHBs) to submit data for its quality and safety markers (QSMs).
12 Nov 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
The latest inpatient survey shows a significant increase in the number of patients who felt hospital staff included their family and whānau in discussions about their care.
8 Nov 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
Māori and Pacific peoples are less likely to receive appropriate treatment for gout, despite being significantly more likely to be affected by the disease than other ethnicities.
6 Nov 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
This week is patient experience survey week and people are being encouraged to have their say about the health care they receive.
26 Oct 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
A4 flyers promoting the patient experience survey are now available as PDFs in English, te reo Māori, Samoan and Tongan languages.
11 Oct 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
Most patients feel their GP or practice nurse treats them with kindness, understanding and respect, results of a survey by the Health Quality & Safety Commission and Ministry of Health show.
14 Jun 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
The latest snapshot of the quality of New Zealand’s health care shows a health system that continues to perform well in the face of a number of challenges.
31 May 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has launched a new, publicly-available dashboard of health system quality that shows at a glance how individual district health boards (DHBs) are performing in a variety of areas.
20 Dec 2017, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has updated information on the use of opioids for 2016 in its Atlas of Healthcare Variation.
26 Jul 2017, Health Quality Intelligence
In the spirit of learning more about what we can do to improve clinical leadership and the safety culture, DHBs are partnering with the University of Otago and the Health Quality & Safety Commission to survey health professional staff.
21 Jun 2017, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has released the latest update of its Open4Results report
1 Jun 2017, Health Quality Intelligence
The latest snapshot of the quality of New Zealand’s health care, published today, shows continuing improvements, but also highlights ongoing inequity in treatment.
9 May 2017, Health Quality Intelligence
Professor Thérèse Stukel and Dr Dominik Von Stillfried will set the scene for a day focused on variations analyses, atlases of health care variation and how they can be used to address variation.
12 Apr 2017, Health Quality Intelligence
The Commission launched a new tool for looking at data on health care provided by New Zealand’s district health boards.
18 Jan 2017, Health Quality Intelligence
The Commission and the Ministry of Health are undertaking nationwide roadshows to introduce the primary care patient experience survey to the sector.
31 Oct 2016, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is celebrating improved patient care as Patient Safety Week begins, with the release of a new report – Open4Results.
19 Aug 2016, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission says figures showing a continuing increase in the prescription of powerful opioids are a prompt for hospitals and primary health care providers to take a close look at their prescribing.
30 Jun 2016, Health Quality Intelligence
The latest Atlas of Healthcare Variation has been released today, focusing on bowel cancer.
29 Jun 2016, Health Quality Intelligence
The latest update for the Commission’s health quality and safety indicators is available now.
20 Jun 2016, Health Quality Intelligence
Data from the Health Quality & Safety Commission shows there are differences in health care and treatment provided to people from different ethnic groups, socioeconomic status and DHBs.