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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.

A report from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (commissioned by the Health Quality & Safety Commission).

The SSII Programme orthopaedic and cardiac data collection forms have been updated (November 2018). Please use these forms to record your data before entering it into the SSII Programme database.

Use this data collection tool for inputting data from patient deterioration audits and for sharing the results.

This is the story of Ian Collis who contracted a surgical site infection after undergoing heart surgery.

The national maternity early warning system (MEWS) short-stay maternity vital signs chart (MVSC) supports the recognition of and response to deteriorating women in short-stay/assessment areas, such as women’s assessment units...

Between July 2017 and June 2018, we worked with Ko Awatea’s Dr Lynne Maher and the four Kōrero mai lead sites to co-design patient, family and whānau escalation of care processes.

This is the final report on the collaborative to prevent central line associated bacteraemia (CLAB).

Interviews involving experts from across the health sector were conducted in April and May 2013 to investigate the context and recommendations for antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in New Zealand.

This brief formative summary on Kōrero mai gives an overview of Synergia's engagement with cohort two of the patient deterioration programme workstream: the patient, family and whānau escalation system.