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Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme has developed a discussion paper seeking feedback from you regarding a proposal to change data collection requirements for orthopaedic procedures

A practical guide to auditing hand hygiene compliance in New Zealand hospitals.

This guide provides guidance for the implementation and delivery of the national Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme (SSIIP) for orthopaedic surgery in New Zealand.

This policy 'adult vital sign and early warning score measurement, recording and escalation', is provided as an example only and will need to be adapted to reflect expectations for local practice and processes.

This template forms part of the patient deterioration preparation and implementation guide, and will assist teams with the development of a project charter.

Our six-monthly report on the harm prevented, and money saved, in areas the Health Quality & Safety Commission focuses on or raises awareness about.

This A6 sticker can be used to notify activation of the early warning score pathway.

New Zealand early warning score and national vital sign chart audit form.

This report sets out major themes from the results of the adult hospital patient experience survey since its inception in 2014. It covers how responses have changed over that time, and the variation in responses between different groups.

This is the second annual update as required by the Ombudsman from the Ministry of Health and the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) on the sector’s progress towards increasing transparency of health data in New Zealand by June 2021.