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22 Sep 2021, Primary Care
Hauora Heretaunga developed a Whakakotahi quality improvement project to improve the wellbeing of Māori children aged 0–4 years suffering physically and emotionally with eczema.
30 Mar 2021, Primary Care
A workplace wellness platform that transitions individuals with long-term conditions to whānau-centred care and responsibility in the whare.
18 Feb 2021, Primary Care
This 10-minute video is the presentation about Whakakotahi, the Commission’s primary care improvement programme, that was presented virtually for the IHI/BMJ International Forum, Copenhagen 2020.
2 Feb 2021, Primary Care
The Tongan Health Society is working on an innovative approach to underpin best practice models for patients with diabetes who are on maximum oral hypoglycaemic medication to start insulin therapy when they are hesitant to do so.
2 Feb 2021, Primary Care
Taumarunui Community Kokiri Trust (TCKT) is a kaupapa Māori health and social services provider. Read about its project to weekly education and support clinic through a Diabetes Support Group in a community setting.
28 Jan 2021, Primary Care
This workbook was developed by the Hutt Union and Community Health Service as a tool to gather views and feedback from their consumer advisory group.
7 Dec 2020, Primary Care
Read how Whanganui-based Gonville Health went about understanding their problem with patient enrolment and creating a process of change and evidencing improvement.
17 Nov 2020, Primary Care
South City Health's free nurse-led clinic is improving management of eczema for children and improved quality of life for the whole family as well. A Whakakotahi project success story.
8 Sep 2020, Primary Care
In its quality improvement project, Victory Square Pharmacy set out to address these inequities in opioid substitution treatment patients in Nelson.
24 Aug 2020, Primary Care
Some of the people involved in Whakakotahi projects talk about their experience and how consumers are key partners in quality improvement.
13 Aug 2020, Primary Care
The Hutt Union and Community Health Service undertook an ambitious project to reduce average blood glucose levels, as measured by HbA1c, in its low-decile and largely Pacific and Māori community
31 Jul 2020, Primary Care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s primary care quality improvement programme commissioned an evaluation of its Whakakotahi project. The evaluation was carried out by Synergia.
7 Jul 2020, Primary Care
The Fono initiated a quality improvement project that used a community-based public health approach with the aim of reducing the rate of SSTI by 25 percent by November 2018 in the West Auckland Tuvaluan community.
2 Jul 2020, Primary Care
A project focused on improving outcomes for Buller Medical’s Māori and Pacific patients with diabetes.
28 May 2020, Primary Care
As part of a Whakakotahi improvement project, an integrated health team in Nelson Marlborough worked on how to make it easier for patients to take their life-saving medication in the year after having a cardiac stent.
26 May 2020, Primary Care
As part of a Whakakotahi improvement project, Unichem Russell Street, Hastings developed a quality improvement project to improve asthma management in a group of Māori and Pacific children.
16 Sep 2019, Primary Care
Co-creating quality improvement in primary care presentation, given at the Practice Managers and Administrators Association of New Zealand conference.
3 Sep 2019, Primary Care
Presentations from Commission representatives and sponsored attendees, at the 2019 Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners conference.
5 Jun 2019, Primary Care
This document, Towards quality improvement at scale in the New Zealand primary care setting, was commissioned to help us plan how to achieve quality improvement at scale in primary care.
27 Jul 2018, Primary Care
This poster was produced for a primary care conference and gives background about Whakakotahi, the Commission's primary care quality improvement challenge.