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This video outlines step three of the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist – sign out.

Brochure for patients to explain the various elements of the surgical safety checklist.

Report from Litmus on attitudes towards the Surgical Safety Checklist and its use in New Zealand operating theatres.

Some questions were raised at the webinar to launch the video but there was not enough time to answer them all. We have now provided responses to those questions.

This is the annual learning from adverse events report for 2017–18, published by the Health Quality & Safety Commission. The report covers adverse events reported by New Zealand's 20 district health boards (DHBs) and other providers.

The purpose of the London Protocol is to ensure a comprehensive and thoughtful investigation and analysis of a clinical incident.

National Adverse Events policy 2017

This presentation given by global trigger tool clinical lead, Gillian Robb, provides an update on the use of trigger tools in New Zealand.

The Global Trigger Tool (GTT) is a methodology developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to identify patient harm that occurs in health care organisations.