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Advance care planning

Advance care planning is the process of thinking about, talking about and planning for future health care and end of life care. This page provides information about advance care planning for consumers and clinicians.
Te āhua o te kaitātaki me ngā mahi ka taea

Leadership and capability

Our quality improvement science education and training courses provide skills to address local improvement challenges, as well as building ability to draw on what is available nationally.
Te whakaratonga pai ake

Improved service delivery

Te Tāhū Hauora engages with the sector to improve the delivery of health care services though specific quality improvement programmes.
Te rōpū tohutohu rautaki ārai mate

Infection prevention and control

The Te Tāhū Hauora national infection prevention and control (IPC) programme aims to improve patient outcomes by reducing the incidence and impact of healthcare associated infections (HAIs) within the New Zealand health and disability sector.
Whakapai i ngā mahi hauora hinengaro waranga hoki

Mental health and addiction quality improvement

The mental health and addiction quality improvement programme is a national initiative working with the DHBs to ensure that people who experience mental health and addiction issues, and their whānau, receive high quality care.
Komiti arotake matenga

Mortality Review Committees

Mortality review committees are statutory committees that review particular deaths, or the deaths of particular people, in order to learn how to best prevent these deaths.
Arotakenga Mātai Whēkau ā-Motu

National Bowel Screening Programme Review

In February 2018 Health Minister Hon. Dr David Clark initiated an independent review of the National Bowel Screening Programme.
Te Hononga Whētuki ā-Motu

National Trauma Network

Te Tāhū Hauora is contracted by the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) to provide support to the Te Hononga Whētuki ā-Motu | National Trauma Network.
He hoa tiaki

Partners in Care

Our programme’s aim is to ensure consumer and whānau engagement in the planning, delivery, and monitoring of health services and therefore a higher quality and safer health system.
Punaha ahuru

System safety

The way we think about safety in the health sector has changed over recent years. We are increasingly recognising the health care system is a complex system that constantly adapts to change.

Mōhiohio kounga e pā ana ki te hauora

Health Quality Intelligence

This programme establishes baseline measures and indicators which can be used to assess the quality of the health and disability system.
Mapi Hauora Kē

Atlas of Healthcare Variation

The Atlas of Healthcare Variation displays easy-to-use maps, graphs, tables and commentaries that highlight variations by geographic area in the provision and use of specific health services and health outcomes.
Tono raraunga

Data submission

This page is for submitting data around quality & safety markers and adverse events.
Ngā Tohu Hauora, Kounga me te Haumaru

Health Quality & Safety Indicators

Measuring the quality of health care and communicating the results in a variety of ways and settings is a powerful way to stimulate improvement.
He Kete Rauemi

Measures Library

Health sectors rely on data to improve quality. Our Measures Library provides technical documents and summaries, management and case documents, plus links to other resources like the Atlas of Healthcare Variation.
Open4Results

Open4Results highlights harm prevented and money saved through the improvements made by health services in areas where Te Tāhū Hauora has a focus.
He ara aupiki, he ara auheke

Patient experience

Patient experience is a vital but complex area. Te Tāhū Hauora conducts three national surveys to enable the collection, measurement and use of patient experience information on a regular basis.
Ngā taupānga

Subscribed apps

A list of subscribed apps to view data published by the health quality intelligence programme.
Ngā tohu kounga, tohu haumaru

Quality & Safety Markers

The quality and safety markers help us evaluate the success of our programmes and determine whether the desired changes in practice and reductions in harm and cost have occurred.
Papatohu kounga

Quality Dashboards

The dashboard brings together everything Te Tāhū Hauora knows about local health systems in one place.
Kōrero kounga

Quality Accounts

Quality accounts require health care providers to give an account for the quality of their services in a similar way to financial accounts showing how an organisation used its money.
Te kounga o te tauwhiro hauora

Window on the quality of health care

Every year Te Tāhū Hauora publishes a document we call A window on the quality of Aotearoa New Zealand’s health care. The Window provides a snapshot of the quality of health care in the country.

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COVID-19 resource hub

Support for people working in health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find information about how you can support yourselves and others, including consumers, teams and colleagues which complements and aligns with Ministry of Health resources.
Kia āta kōwhiri

Choosing Wisely

The Choosing Wisely campaign seeks to reduce harm from unnecessary and low-value tests and treatment.

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Paediatric early warning system (PEWS) preparation and implementation guide
Published: 11th May, 2023 | PDF

The Health Quality & Safety Commission has developed a national paediatric early warning system (PEWS) to help clinicians identify hospitalised tamariki with the potential to become more unwell, so they can respond quickly.
Patient deterioration

Paediatric vital sign chart (PVSC) quick reference guide
Published: 8th March, 2023 | Content

This guide gives quick ‘how to’ answers to commonly asked questions about completing the paediatric vital sign charts.
Patient deterioration

Evaluation report: Test of the national paediatric early warning system implementation
Published: 20th January, 2023 | PDF

This document outlines an evaluation of the early implementation of the national paediatric early warning system (PEWS).
Patient deterioration

Factsheet: Capabilities for recognising and responding to acute deterioration in hospital
Published: 1st July, 2022 | PDF

Patient deterioration

Presentations and videos from Patient deterioration New Zealand: current state and future developments
Published: 1st July, 2022 | Multimedia

Presentations and videos from the Health Quality & Safety Commission's two-day conference Patient deterioration New Zealand: current state and future developments.
Patient deterioration

Infographics: Talking to adult patients with a serious illness and at risk of deterioration
Published: 1st July, 2022 | Multimedia

Infographics about talking to adult patients with a serious illness and at risk of deterioration.
Patient deterioration

Recognition and response system retrospective case note review template
Published: 17th December, 2021 | Multimedia

Patient deterioration

Patient deterioration programme charter: Recognising and responding together
Published: 13th December, 2021 | PDF

This document sets out work by the Health Quality & Safety Commission on the patient deterioration programme. It identifies what our programme aims to achieve over five years and how it will do this. It will be supported by annual programme plans.
Patient deterioration

Presentations from the special one-day workshop with Jeanne M. Huddleston
Published: 13th December, 2021 | Video

In partnership with the Health Roundtable, the Health Quality & Safety Commission hosted Associate Professor Jeanne M. Huddleston from the Mayo Clinic for a full-day interactive workshop.
Patient deterioration

The deteriorating adult patient: evidence summary
Published: 13th December, 2021 | PDF

This is an evidence summary of three potential interventions relating to the deteriorating adult patient.
Patient deterioration