Resource library Whare rauemi

Courtenay Mihinui shares the story of her journey through the health system with her daughter Demar.

This resource is designed to help hospital staff plan and engage executive and senior leaders in IPC walk rounds, capture issues and suggestions, and develop and implement improvements.

In this video, Dr Matthew Drake (clinical lead obstetric anaesthesia) presents a virtual grand round about the New Zealand national maternity early warning system (MEWS).

The authors set out to reduce CRBSI and introduced interventions in their intensive care unit (ICU) over a 4-year period using a quality improvement approach.

Partnering to Heal, from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, is a computer-based, video-simulation training program on infection control practices for clinicians, health professional students, and patient advocates.

This video from IHI tells the story of Rosie Bartel, who contracted a surgical site infection which had a serious impact on her health and her future.

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.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission developed a quality improvement toolkit in 2016 as part of its focus on reducing harm from falls.

This guidance document and supporting resources provide practical assistance to aged residential care facilities in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.