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Alisa Ili, theatre nurse manager and Dr Andrew Connolly, general surgeon at Counties Manukau Health, share how start-of-list briefings support their decision making.

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.

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.

Improving the quality and safety of care.

This system safety report combines harm data and insights from multiple agencies to identify recurring themes, system learning opportunities and priorities for reducing avoidable harm across New Zealand's health system.