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.
15 Mar 2018, Safe Surgery NZ
This is your opportunity to join other surgical teams in your area to find out about the safe surgery programme's impact to date and share your experience of the teamwork and communication interventions.
13 Feb 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
The second Surgical Safety Culture Survey is underway, and news about planned co-design training and auditor training.
4 Oct 2016, Safe Surgery NZ
Safe Surgery NZ regional workshops with Professor Cliff Hughes – Leadership: is it power, authority or influence?
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.
13 Oct 2015, Safe Surgery NZ
Haematologists at Auckland DHB are joining global health leaders to raise awareness of one of the world’s most preventable hospital deaths.
16 Sep 2015, Safe Surgery NZ
15 Sep 2015, Safe Surgery NZ
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is disturbed by the findings of an investigation into workplace bullying, sexual harassment and discrimination among surgeons and trainees in New Zealand and Australia
18 Jun 2015, Safe Surgery NZ
Surgical teams will soon be invited to participate in the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s surgical safety culture survey.
16 Jun 2015, Safe Surgery NZ
Join Professor Clifford Ko in exploring how teamwork and communication can contribute to improving quality and patient safety in operating theatres.
28 May 2015, Safe Surgery NZ
All district health boards (DHBs) have now indicated their preferred cohort for the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s rollout of surgical teamwork and communication interventions.
4 Mar 2015, Safe Surgery NZ
The next phase of the Reducing Perioperative Harm programme will focus on rolling out the learnings from the proof of concept project to the sector.
16 Feb 2015, Safe Surgery NZ
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s perioperative harm programme aims to reduce the significant harm caused by adverse events and other preventable errors that take place during the perioperative period.
3 Nov 2014, Safe Surgery NZ
Blood clots and YOU is a new venous thromboembolism (VTE) brochure developed by Southern Cross Hospitals as a resource for GPs to share and discuss with patients going on to surgery.
13 Oct 2014, Safe Surgery NZ
Vascular surgeon Mr Ian Civil, clinical lead for the Commission’s reducing perioperative harm programme, welcomes World Thrombosis Day today as an opportunity to highlight the importance of hospitals ensuring they have a systematic
10 Oct 2014, Safe Surgery NZ
World Thrombosis Day, for which the Health Quality & Safety Commission is partnering with the the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, is on Monday 13 October and is targeting both patients and clinicians.
18 Sep 2014, Safe Surgery NZ
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Reducing Perioperative Harm programme has two new videos to add to the growing list of resources focused on improving teamwork and communication.
19 Aug 2014, Safe Surgery NZ
Waikato District Health Board (DHB), Lakes DHB and Southern Cross Hospital in Auckland are participating in the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s perioperative harm proof of concept project.
28 Jul 2014, Safe Surgery NZ
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Reducing Perioperative Harm programme is working to help hospitals improve teamwork and communication in the operating theatre.