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The Health Quality & Safety Commission's Statement of Performance Expectation for the period 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission's Statement of Performance Expectation for the period 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission's Statement of Performance Expectation for the period 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2023.

Commission staff members Jane Cullen and Dr Te Raina Gunn presented at GP22 on embedding te Tiriti in capability design and delivery. See the slides from their presentation here.

This article describes describe risk factors for surgical site infection (SSI) caused by aerobic Gram-negative organisms after hip and knee arthroplasty in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This document outlines the process for undertaking ‘light surveillance’ for the orthopaedic SSIIP. It supplements the Orthopaedic surgery implementation manual.

Helen McKernan talks about her mother’s death, following a hospital medication error. Helen's mother was given the wrong medication for four days because of a chart mix up and inadequate checking.

This paper (Social Science and Medicine 73 (2011) 217-225) examines the challenges of investigating clinical incidents through the use of Root Cause Analysis.

The Family Violence Death Review Committee held a webinar in partnership with the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse to present the findings of the FVRDC Sixth Report 'Men who use violence'.

This report asks why rangatahi, compared with non-Māori young people, have higher rates of death by suicide and what Aotearoa New Zealand is doing, and what else we could do, to prevent rangatahi from taking their lives by suicide.