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19 Oct 2021, Health Quality Intelligence
This is the fifth annual update as required by the Ombudsman from the Ministry of Health and the Health Quality & Safety Commission on the sector’s progress towards increasing transparency of health data in Aotearoa New Zealand by June 2021.
7 Oct 2021, Partners in Care
The Commission is developing a code of expectations (the code) which will set how health and disability service providers and organisations will involve and work effectively in partnership with consumers and whānau.
4 Oct 2021, Other Topics
This video about Choosing Wisely includes stories from health care consumers along with advice from Dr John Bonning.
1 Oct 2021, Adverse Events
Some questions were raised at the webinar to launch the video but there was not enough time to answer them all. We have now provided responses to those questions.
22 Sep 2021, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The Health Quality & Safety Commission's Statement of Performance Expectation for the period 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022.
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.
22 Sep 2021, Partners in Care
Terms of reference for the Health Quality & Safety Commission's partners in care consumer advisory group.
22 Sep 2021, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
The 15th data report of the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee is available to download here, along with an infographic containing insights into the report. The report is summarised on this web page.
16 Sep 2021, Reducing Harm from Falls
Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry 2021 Annual Report has just been released.
3 Sep 2021, Equity
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has developed a Te Ao Māori Framework in partnership with Māori health providers, Whānau Ora providers and participating district health boards across Aotearoa New Zealand.
1 Sep 2021, Adverse Events
Pou hihiri, Pou o te aroha | Healing and learning from harm was developed by the Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice and Stella Maris productions in consultation with several health sector and Māori partners, and funded by the Health Quality & Safety
13 Aug 2021, ACP information for consumers
Whenua ki te whenua: A taonga for your whānau, is an advance care planning guide designed using kaupapa Māori processes. Available in English and te re Māori the resources can be downloaded as PDFs or physical copies ordered free of charge.
11 Aug 2021, Adverse Events
This Open Book alerts providers to the key findings of a recent review of an incident where a patient suffered an extravasation injury that required skin grafts to repair.
5 Aug 2021, Safe Surgery NZ
This guide is intended to help project leads and their teams prepare for and implement the teamwork and communication interventions in their theatres and surgical teams.
5 Aug 2021, Safe Surgery NZ
Long and short versions of the Commission's repository of selected research papers on safer surgery.
27 Jul 2021, Patient Deterioration
This template is to assist with retrospective case review following an incident related to failures to recognise or respond to clinical deterioration.
22 Jul 2021, Infection Prevention & Control
National hand hygiene compliance report: 1 March 2021 to 30 June 2021
21 Jul 2021, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
To support those engaged in ongoing improvement work in service transitions, the Health Quality & Safety Commission has summarised some top tips and examples from provider project teams.
19 Jul 2021, ACP information for consumers
Who would you like to speak for you if you can’t? If you have dementia, having an advance care plan means people will know your wishes, even if you can no longer tell them.
16 Jul 2021, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 25 June - 16 July.