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This case study details the work at Northland District Health Board to successfully introduce surgical safety interventions into their operating theatres.

Recording of the 'Beyond the tickbox' webinar with Dr William Berry, held on Friday 11 July 2014.

Presentation from Perioperative Harm Advisory Group clinical lead Mr Ian Civil – What is perioperative harm and how can we reduce it?

Brochure for patients to explain the various elements of the surgical safety checklist.

Report from Litmus on attitudes towards the Surgical Safety Checklist and its use in New Zealand operating theatres.

This is the annual learning from adverse events report for 2017–18, published by the Health Quality & Safety Commission. The report covers adverse events reported by New Zealand's 20 district health boards (DHBs) and other providers.

National Adverse Events policy 2017

This presentation given by global trigger tool clinical lead, Gillian Robb, provides an update on the use of trigger tools in New Zealand.

In this year three in 10,000 admissions to DHBs involved a potentially preventable serious or sentinel event. Of these 39 percent were a result of a clinical mismanagement problem