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Open4Results is a six-monthly report on the harm prevented, and money saved, in areas the Health Quality & Safety Commission focuses on or raises awareness about.

This article from The King's Fund explores the possible causes of variation, shows the different ways in which variations can be measured, and analyses variations by PCT in rates of elective hospital admissions for selected procedures.

This document, prepared by Sapere Research Group, discusses variation in the way health services are delivered by individual clinicians, and across geographic areas.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Atlas of Healthcare Variation (the Atlas) is a starting point for analysing variation in a local area, and for developing service improvement activities to address variation.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Atlas of Healthcare Variation (the Atlas) is a starting point for analysing variation in a local area, and for developing service improvement activities to address variation.

This workbook is designed to help you use data from the Aotearoa New Zealand adult hospital inpatient experience survey to conduct quality improvement initiatives and track the progress of these initiatives.

This report looks at currently available measures within a framework for understanding quality and considers ‘How good is New Zealand’s health care?’

This report describes the approach to and findings of Aotearoa New Zealand’s first national point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections. This information will help us identify targets for quality improvement.

In this report, we use perspectives from respondents in the health and disability sector and hard data to continue important lines of enquiry we began in A window on quality 2021: COVID-19 and its impacts on our broader health system (Part 1).

This year’s A window on quality explores the secondary impacts of our response on selected aspects of the functioning of our health system so we can learn from that experience and shape resilient system responses in the future.