New mental health and addiction quality improvement programme
21 Jun 2017, Other Topics
The Commission is leading a new, five-year mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme
21 Jun 2017, Other Topics
The Commission is leading a new, five-year mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme
12 Jun 2017, Other Topics
This free event is an ideal opportunity for your consumers or patients to learn more about the benefits of doing an advance care plan.
16 May 2017, Other Topics
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is leading a new mental health and addiction quality improvement programme.
10 May 2017, Other Topics
The Ministry of Health’s Te Ara Whakapiri, principles and guidance for the last days of life (2015) has been updated to include a toolkit.
7 Apr 2017, Other Topics
The Commission would like to extend our thanks to all who got involved with Conversations that Count Day on 5 April.
3 Apr 2017, Other Topics
Conversations that Count Day on 5 April is aimed at encouraging people to think about and share with their loved ones what was important to them as they neared the end of their life.
2 Mar 2017, Other Topics
A day to talk about advance care planning
16 Feb 2017, Other Topics
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 25 January–8 February 2017 is now available online.
13 Feb 2017, Other Topics
Talk about advance care planning on Wednesday 5 April.
2 Sep 2016, Other Topics
There have been some recent changes to the Health Quality & Safety Commission's Deteriorating Patient programme team.
11 Apr 2016, Other Topics
These free seminars will suit health care management, nurses, doctors and hospital health care assistants, and provide high-level ideas, thoughtprovoking approaches and world-leading advice about preventing pressure injuries.
22 Mar 2016, Other Topics
The Health Quality & Safety Commission, in partnership with the Health Roundtable, will host Jeanne Huddleston from the Mayo Clinic to deliver a full day interactive workshop on improving reliability of systems to detect and rescue deteriorating patients.
21 Jan 2016, Other Topics
The Health Quality & Safety Commission, ACC and the Ministry of Health have released a report that looks at the economic and social harm caused by pressure injuries.
9 Mar 2015, Other Topics
A national global trigger tool (GTT) workshop will be held on Monday 9 March 2015.
12 Dec 2014, Other Topics
An initial stakeholder workshop will be held in Wellington on 12 December. The Commission is in the process of appointing a provider to develop an investment case for a national programme to reduce harm from clinical deterioration of patients in hospital.
10 Dec 2014, Other Topics
The December 2014 edition of Let's Talk Triggers, a quarterly newsletter from the Commission's Global Trigger Tools programme containing updates, trigger tool tips, featured articles and other items on patient safety.
14 Feb 2013, Other Topics
This program is designed for teams of reviewers who intend to use the IHI Global Trigger Tool in their own hospitals.
30 Jan 2013, Other Topics
The Health Quality & Safety Commission welcomes the findings of a study on adverse drug events published in the New Zealand Medical Journal recently.
8 Nov 2012, Other Topics
The Partners in Care project was an output of the Commission's Quality & Safety Challenge.