The Health Quality & Safety Commission is focused on making surgery safer for patients by working to improve teamwork and communication in the operating theatre.
16 May 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is encouraging surgical teams in district health boards and private surgical hospitals throughout New Zealand to hold a start-of-list briefing on Thursday 27 June 2019.
13 Feb 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
The second Surgical Safety Culture Survey is underway, and news about planned co-design training and auditor training.
10 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
A third national survey of district health board (DHB) surgical staff shows that in most instances people work together as a well-coordinated team.
28 Jun 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
Over 60 surgical teams across New Zealand participated in surgical briefing awareness day yesterday.
7 Apr 2016, Safe Surgery NZ
Roll-out of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s safe surgery interventions is progressing well. All district health boards (DHBs) in cohort one and two are in the implementation phase and DHBs in cohort three have one more month in the preparation ph
18 Dec 2015, Safe Surgery NZ
As part of the evaluation of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s (the Commission) Safe Surgery NZ programme, a baseline national survey of district health board (DHB) surgical staff has been undertaken.
