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Reporting and reviewing adverse events involving consumers of mental health and addiction services
This purpose of this document is to provide guidance to the MHA sector and clarify its obligations under the national policy. Note: This is an interim document pending the update of the National Adverse Events Reporting Policy in 2022.
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Mental health and wellbeing resources for Aotearoa Patient Safety Day 2020
This document lists existing mental health and wellbeing resources, taken from the Mental Health Foundation website.
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Ngā poutama oranga hinengaro: quality in context survey poster
This poster introduces the August 2018 mental health and addiction quality and safety culture survey and provides an overview of who can take part, the purpose of the survey and how to access it.
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Workshop round-up: Monitoring consumers on particular antipsychotic medication treatment to reduce risk of poor cardiovascular health
The first supra-regional co-design workshops have been held for district teams involved in the Maximising physical health monitoring consumers on particular antipsychotic medication treatment project to reduce risk of poor cardiovascular health.
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Toolkit released to help DHBs learn from mental health and addiction sector adverse events
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has released a toolkit for triaging, reviewing and learning from adverse events in mental health and addiction services.
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Congratulations to mental health and addiction sector participants in inaugural ‘Quality in action’ course
Virtual celebrations were held on 17 and 24 March 2021 for the 42 mental health and addiction sector participants who recently completed the Commission's ‘Quality in action’ course on foundation quality improvement concepts and practice.
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Survey of people who use mental health and addiction services offers insights for service improvement
A survey about people’s experiences using mental health and addiction (MHA) services has found many people felt they were treated with respect and things were well explained to them; but that their cultural and spiritual needs were not always met.
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Mental health and addiction quality improvement programme update June 2021
This update from the mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme | Whakapai i ngā mahi hauora hinengaro waranga hoki focuses on the programme approach to the end of June 2022.
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Thinking differently: Re-framing family violence responsiveness in the mental health and addictions health care context
Members of the Family Violence Death Review Committee were co-authors on a recent paper published in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.
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Mental health and addiction tools and resources
Tools and resources provided by the mental health and addiction quality improvement programme's Māori advisory group.