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Briefings take just five minutes and have a significant and positive impact on patient safety by improving communication and teamwork, reducing delays and identifying potential risks prior to surgery.

A video from the Commission outlining the use of the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist.

This checklist has been adapted from the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Video 1 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.

This video from the Commission's Reducing Perioperative Harm programme demonstrates best practice for briefing and debriefing sessions, based on the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist.

Lis Browne talks about implementation of briefing and debriefing sessions at Hutt Valley District Health Board.

This is a video recording of a presentation by Professor Paul Bowie about human factors and maternity systems.

Downloadable A3 and A4 versions of the peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) infographics.

Alwena was diagnosed with stage 4 peritoneal cancer. In this video, her husband Jim (a health care professional) shares the story of Alwena's diagnosis and their whānau's experience within the health system.