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3 Oct 2019, Patient Safety Week
These posters encourage clinicians and others to view the videos and examine their own biases. There is a generic version, plus a version which can be written on.
27 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
This video talks about the importance of speaking up for patient safety – being vocal is necessary because many times, patients can't speak for themselves.
27 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
This video talks about the importance of actively listening for patient safety – ensuring all viewpoints are heard and that mistakes are avoided.
27 Sep 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Presentations from the first co-design workshop for Te ako mai i ngā pāmamaetanga me te wheako tāngata whaiora me te whānau | Learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience project.
26 Sep 2019, Reducing Harm from Falls
The 2019 Annual Report for the Australian & New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry.
26 Sep 2019, Medication Safety
Purpose: To highlight the risks associated with the use of transdermal patches (both from the medicine and the delivery system).
23 Sep 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The third annual report from the Maternal Morbidity Working Group covering the period of 1 September 2017 to 31 August 2018.
23 Sep 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Thirteenth Annual Report of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee | Te Pūrongo ā-Tau Tekau mā Toru o te Komiti Arotake Mate Pēpi, Mate Whaea Hoki.
20 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
This blog was first published in O&G Magazine Vol 21 No 3 Spring 2019. It highlights the evidence for surgical checklists and briefings, and the Commission’s experience of implementing these tools nationally.
19 Sep 2019, Advance Care Planning
This booklet from the New Zealand Law Society Continuing Legal Education discusses advance care planning issues for lawyers.
19 Sep 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 29 August to 18 September 2019.
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.
12 Sep 2019, Medication Safety
Further reading, articles and resources of interest, part of the Commission's appropriate prescribing toolkit.
12 Sep 2019, Medication Safety
How to stop medicines, part of the Commission's appropriate prescribing toolkit.
12 Sep 2019, Medication Safety
Tools to guide which medicines should be considered for deprescribing, part of the Commission's appropriate prescribing toolkit.
12 Sep 2019, Aged Residential Care
The frailty care guides are a suite of 26 nursing decision support tools covering the spectrum of frailty from deterioration to communication and advance treatment planning.
11 Sep 2019, Partners in Care
Alwena was diagnosed with stage 4 peritoneal cancer. In this video, her husband Jim (a health care professional) shares his story about Alwena's diagnosis and their whānau's experience with the health system.
10 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
The 2019 surgical safety culture survey was undertaken by Mobius Research and Strategy, to assist in evaluation of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's Safe Surgery NZ programme. This report presents the results of the 2019 survey.
6 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
Localised start-of-list and surgical safety checklist posters from Counties Manukau Health.
3 Sep 2019, Primary Care
Presentations from Commission representatives and sponsored attendees, at the 2019 Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners conference.