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31 May 2016, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
Suicide is a major cause of death in New Zealand and the most common cause of death for young people. In 2012, 549 New Zealanders took their own lives with suicide rates being much higher in males.
1 Feb 2008, Medication Safety
A poster illustrating some common INNs and BANs that may cause confusion
23 May 2012, Medication Safety
A poster and quick reference card listing abbreviations, symbols and dose designations which should never be used when communicating medicine-related information.
23 Aug 2016, Health Quality Intelligence
A guide for general practices about getting started with the primary care patient experience survey.
11 Dec 2017, Infection Prevention & Control
Presentations from the HHNZ hand hygiene workshop
1 Oct 2012, Adverse Events
The likelihood and consequences tables are used by district health boards (DHBs) to assist with the classification of incidents by DHB quality and risk managers.
1 Mar 2010, Advance Care Planning
A template to help you think about the issues you may have about advance care planning.
1 Jul 2014, Health Quality Intelligence
This document sets out the methodology and procedures for the patient experience indicators survey.
28 Jun 2016, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
This report considers perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity from 1 January to 31 December 2014; perinatal mortality from 2007 to 2014; maternal mortality from 2006 to 2014; and babies with neonatal encephalopathy from 2010 to 2014.
31 Aug 2012, Safe Surgery NZ
This checklist has been adapted from the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
22 Aug 2016, Reducing Harm from Falls
This report presents an evaluation of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's Reducing Harm from Falls programme.
12 May 2017, Reducing Harm from Falls
22 Feb 2013, Adverse Events
This document provides advice on how to manage the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process for Severity Assessment Code 1 and 2 incidents to assist RCA Teams.
30 Oct 2017, Other Topics
This ‘think piece’ from the Health Quality & Safety Commission signals our intention to tackle health inequities.
10 Nov 2016, Adverse Events
Report on adverse events reported to the Health Quality & Safety Commission from 1 July 2015–30 June 2016.
23 Jun 2015, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
Placeholder for PMMRC report 2015
26 Jul 2013, Reducing Harm from Falls
The Ask, assess, act pocket card to print and fold.
16 Jun 2017, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
In this sixth report, the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee has examined perioperative mortality in New Zealand during 2010–2014 for two new areas of interest.