Resource library

This document sets out the Health Quality & Safety Commission's work through the aged residential care quality improvement programme.

Watch Dr Robert Lloyd from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), show how to use a 'family of measures' to monitor the impact of quality improvement work.

This video provided by the IHI, helps us to understand how we use the driver diagram concept as a tool to describe the system within which we undertake quality improvement activity.

Information on the Infection Prevention and Control programme.

This document provides a practical guide to implementing the Hand Hygiene New Zealand programme within DHBs in New Zealand.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s aged residential care (ARC) programme is pleased to share a collection of personal stories about what’s important to people and their families/whānau when entering ARC in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Hand Hygiene New Zealand education toolkit has been developed to provide district health board hand hygiene coordinators, champions and others, with a range of ideas and activities for delivering hand hygiene education to health care workers.

The philosophy of care, Eden Principles and code of rights and conduct from Enliven.

Consumer leaflet for patients about preventing infection after surgery.

Findings from the August 2016 survey conducted in district health boards (DHBs) to gain a better understanding of their approach in delivering the HHNZ programme.