18 Mar 2015, Health Quality Intelligence
Evidence that the number of people being given one of the most dangerous classes of medicine varies up to three-fold around New Zealand is a cue for hospitals and primary health care providers to take a close look at their prescribing.
12 Mar 2015, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is looking for a health care consumer to join the Atlas Steering Group (ASG).
12 Feb 2015, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s new national survey of public hospital inpatients is proving its value as a tool for identifying where care improvement is necessary.
19 Dec 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
The Atlas of Healthcare Variation opioid domain, published today, shows the rate of use of opioids in each district health board (DHB). See the opioid Atlas here. The Atlas covers only opioids dispensed from community pharmacies and does not include those
15 Dec 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has released quality and safety markers data for the July to September 2014 quarter.
2 Dec 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
Five priorities for improvement are a feature of Waikato District Health Board’s fourth annual Quality Account published this week.
26 Nov 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is encouraging people to respond to a new survey asking for feedback on their stay in hospital.
4 Nov 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission today released results from the first national survey of hospital inpatients.
17 Oct 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
A new paper published in the New Zealand Medical Journal has examined treatments for gout in New Zealand and found only 23 percent of gout patients considered to require regular treatment were being treated according to best practice.
30 Sep 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
The Commission’s latest Quality and Safety Markers quarterly report shows more district health boards are achieving the ideal combination of assessing older patients for their risk of falling and then giving them a care plan tailored to that risk.
26 Aug 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
Associate Health Minister Jo Goodhew is urging hospital patients to take part in a new survey asking them for feedback on their health care.
4 Aug 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
Associate Health Minister Jo Goodhew is welcoming a new survey system which will ask hospital patients for their feedback.
22 Jul 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
The patient experience indicators programme is on schedule and progressing well towards having a national approach to collection, measurement and use of patient experience information implemented by mid-August for the first quarterly patient experience su
16 Jul 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has released a new Atlas of Healthcare Variation, looking at the quality of care provided to people with diabetes.
2 Jul 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
A new way of presenting data has found hospital admission rates for asthma and indicators of asthma management vary between district health boards (DHBs).
2 Jul 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
A new way of looking at data has shown a fall in the time people spent in hospital for mental health reasons.
25 Jun 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
An update on the health quality & safety indicators from the Health Quality & Safety Commission .
20 Jun 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
A New Zealand Medical Journal article reports wide variations across the country in the dispensing of benzodiazepine and antipsychotic drugs to older people.
5 May 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
Update on the programme of work on the patient experience indicators.
9 Apr 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
The Bay of Plenty District Health Board (BOPDHB) has been recognised nationally for the strides it is making against a healthcare target on patient falls.