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Briefings take just five minutes and have a significant and positive impact on patient safety by improving communication and teamwork, reducing delays and identifying potential risks prior to surgery.

A video from the Commission outlining the use of the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist.

Video 4 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.

Video 3 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.

Video 5 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.

Video 6 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.

Video 7 in the teamwork and communication roll-out

This video from the Commission's Reducing Perioperative Harm programme demonstrates best practice for briefing and debriefing sessions, based on the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist.

Lis Browne talks about implementation of briefing and debriefing sessions at Hutt Valley District Health Board.

This is a summary version of the Commission's video on effective use of the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist.