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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.

In this year three in 10,000 admissions to DHBs involved a potentially preventable serious or sentinel event. Of these 39 percent were a result of a clinical mismanagement problem

The report below contains a summary of feedback from participants in the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s 2020/21 co-design in primary care programme.

As cancer treatments improve more people are living with, through and beyond cancer. Support for these people and their whānau is important.

The partners in care programme has written a summary report of the Let's talk: our communities, our health forum, held on 8–9 March 2018.

You are not alone. There are more than 172,000 people living with some form of heart disease in New Zealand.

This paper by Dr Arthur Morris, Dr Sally Roberts, Nikki Grae and Dr Chris Frampton highlights increased rates of infection following hip and knee arthroplasty when cefazolin is underdosed.

This factsheet provides information about how to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) using an evidence-based practice VAP bundle.

This factsheet provides information about central line associated bacteraemia (CLAB) including insertion and maintenance bundles to prevent infection.