23 May 2018, Partners in Care
Do you want to use your own health experience to work with the Health Quality & Safety Commission? Owing to vacancies in the Commission’s consumer network we are seeking expressions of interest to fill five consumer positions.
9 May 2018, Partners in Care
Health Quality & Safety Commission consumer network member, Courtenay, shares the story of her perfect family.
15 Mar 2018, Partners in Care
Counties Manukau Health is recruiting a part-time experience engagement advisor. This position works in partnership with patients and staff to deliver exceptional care and experiences at Counties Manukau Health.
14 Mar 2018, Partners in Care
Author and young cancer survivor Jake Bailey made headlines when he delivered his end-of-year prizegiving speech as head boy of Christchurch Boys’ High School in December 2015, just one week after being diagnosed with Burkitt’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
9 Mar 2018, Partners in Care
Dr Lynne Maher presented at the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Let’s talk forum on 8 March 2018.
9 Mar 2018, Partners in Care
Te Rina Ruru’s life changed the morning her brother Ray had a car accident which left him with a traumatic brain injury. She was 16 at the time and struggled to cope. Te Rina shared her story at the Commission’s Let’s talk forum on 8–9 March.
8 Mar 2018, Partners in Care
A 2-day interactive co-design forum to improve the quality and safety of our health system.
18 Dec 2017, Partners in Care
Auckland Council's interview with Martine Abel, who is a member of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's consumer network, and the consumer advisory group to the Board.
19 Jul 2017, Partners in Care
A Community Health Council has been established to make sure communities, whānau and patients have a strong voice in planning, designing and delivering services across the Southern health system.
30 Jun 2017, Partners in Care
The 2016–17 iteration of the co-design programme was delivered in three DHBs and their case studies are now available to download
30 May 2017, Partners in Care
Raising the Bar on the National Patient Experience Survey responds to the national inpatient experience survey results by investigating the lower scoring areas of the survey and recommending interventions to improve these results.
2 Mar 2017, Partners in Care
A positive experience of the thought and commitment which goes into ensuring the consumer voice is heard.
25 Nov 2016, Partners in Care
Rose Russell was about to head off to Malaysia to deliver an academic writing course when she had a fall that drastically changed her plans.
3 Nov 2016, Partners in Care
Hutt Valley District Health Board (DHB) chief executive Dr Ashley Bloomfield and quality and risk manager Amber O’Callaghan officially opened the Hutt Valley DHB co-design programme this week.
13 Oct 2016, Partners in Care
Health Quality & Safety Commission consumer network member Vicki Culling was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowship to travel to the UK and USA.
13 Oct 2016, Partners in Care
Three members of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s consumer network attended the recent 2016 APAC Forum in Sydney.
29 Sep 2016, Partners in Care
Taranaki District Health Board (DHB) has taken a patient- and family/whānau-centred approach to car parking after patients claimed the stress of finding a park may preventing them coming for treatment.
22 Sep 2016, Partners in Care
Health Quality & Safety Commission consumer network member Traci Stanbury was a runner-up in the recent Ministry of Health 2016 Volunteer Awards.
10 Jul 2016, Partners in Care
Seminar for consumers, family, carers and support staff of people who have suffered trauma or illness.
4 Jul 2016, Partners in Care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is pleased to see that some district health boards (DHBs) have already formed consumer councils made up entirely of consumer representatives, while others are in development.