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Reducing harm
We monitor the success of previous improvement programmes through changes in practice and reduction in harm.
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Falls
Reducing harm from falls was a national programme led by the Health Quality & Safety Commission, working in partnership with a wide range of stakeholder organisations, from 2012–13 until 2017–18.
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Medicines
The national medication safety programme aims to greatly reduce the number of New Zealanders harmed each year by medication errors in our hospitals, general practices, aged care facilities and across the entire health and disability sector.
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Pressure injury prevention
Pressure injuries are a major cause of preventable harm for patients using health care services. Pressure injuries impact the New Zealand health system by increasing patients’ length of stay, ACC treatment injury claims and care costs.
- Topic 1 – Falls in older people: the impacts
- Topic 2 – Which older person is at risk of falling? Ask, assess and act
- Topic 3 – Falls risk assessment: a multifactorial approach
- Topic 4 – Addressing risk factors in an individualised care plan
- Topic 5 – Safe environment and safe care are essential to prevent falls
- Topic 6 – After a fall: what should happen?