21 Aug 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
More than 60 participants attended learning session three for the mental health and addiction quality improvement programme's Learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience project.
23 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
A survey about people’s experiences using mental health and addiction (MHA) services has found many people felt they were treated with respect and things were well explained to them; but that their cultural and spiritual needs were not always met.
16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Jenny MacFadgen talks about how she found the mental health and addiction quality improvement facilitator course, the project she completed and how the overall experience has influenced her work.
16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Kerry Weir-Smith talks about how she found the mental health and addiction quality improvement facilitator course, the project she completed and how the overall experience has influenced her work.
16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Daniel McClean talks about the mental health and addiction quality improvement facilitator course, the project he completed and how the overall experience has influenced his work.
16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Congratulations to the 18 participants who completed this year’s Health Quality & Safety Commission mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement facilitator course.
5 Jun 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The Conversation Café meets monthly, via video conference, to discuss the challenges of living with mental health and addiction (MHA) issues as well as MHA service developments planned to address some of the challenges people are facing.
27 May 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board is making great progress working toward eliminating seclusion.
27 May 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Approximately 60 participants representing 15 district health boards (DHBs) joined an online learning session for the Learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience project.
15 May 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Teams participating in a project for the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme met for a learning session in February.
10 Jan 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience is one of the five priority areas for the Commission’s national five-year mental health and addiction quality improvement programme.
10 Jan 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Connecting care is one of the five priority areas for the Commission’s national five-year mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme.
26 Nov 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Vicki Dent, acting quality manager, Specialist Mental Health Services at Canterbury District Health Board, explains what she hopes to achieve in her role working in quality improvement.
11 Oct 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme organised several activities to acknowledge and celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week 2019 (23–29 September).
8 Oct 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Leigh Murray works for Auckland District Health Board (DHB) mental health services as a family advisor. Leigh recently presented at the Commission's MHA programme's learning session in August.
2 Oct 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The Commission’s mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme recently launched a project to engage all stakeholders and improve the experience of consumers, family and whānau and staff involved in an adverse event.
20 Sep 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Heather Casey, Southern District Health Board Director of Nursing Mental Health, Addictions and Intellectual Disability has been recognised at the 2019 Mental Health Service Awards of Australia and New Zealand programme for service to mental health.
23 Aug 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The second learning session for Connecting Care: Improving service transitions/Te tūhono i ngā manaakitanga, te whakapai ake i ngā whakawhitinga ratonga was held in Auckland on 7 August and Wellington on 8 August.
22 Aug 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
A Ngā Poutama survey of consumers of mental health and addiction (MHA) services, their family and whānau goes live on 1 September 2019.
19 Jul 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The national mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme (QIP) is building quality improvement capability in the MHA sector by sponsoring and delivering a number of educational courses and workshops.