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This report by Joanna Hikaka and Ngaire Kerse was commissioned by the Health Quality & Safety Commission as a ‘thought-piece on Māori and aged residential care (ARC)’.

The Atlas is a powerful tool which allows us to look at heath care variation in New Zealand. The Atlas is quite simple to use but we recommend you read the following guidance on creating reports first to ensure you get the best out of it.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission's Statement of Intent for the period 2020–24.

In 2019, the Health Quality & Safety Commission completed a self-review, based on the State Services Commission’s Performance Improvement Framework (PIF).

In a series of articles on Aotearoa New Zealand’s resilient health care during COVID-19, we hear about Te Rohe o Te Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, Ngāti Kahungunu and the response to COVID-19 between February and May 2020.

The Commission has developed a new co-design resource: a factsheet for hospitals to give to consumers who are considering joining the Kōrero mai/Talk to me co-design team. This was originally published in June 2017 and was updated in October 2020.

Between October 2017 and June 2018, the Commission worked with six early implementation sites to make improvements to their systems through testing the national vital signs chart, New Zealand early warning score and other tools and guidance.

This A6 sticker can be used to identify patients who have had a rapid response activation.

This report from The King's Fund provides an analysis of trends in inpatient surveys in NHS acute trusts in England from 2005–13.

This is the third annual update as required by the Ombudsman from the Ministry of Health and the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) on the sector’s progress towards increasing transparency of health data in New Zealand by June 2021.