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  • STOP Pressure Injury Day
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  • Pressure injury QSMs
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  • Reducing harm
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    We monitor the success of previous improvement programmes through changes in practice and reduction in harm.

  • About the modules
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    Having a bias means having preconceived ideas or attitudes about something or someone.

  • Health literacy
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    Health literacy is being able to obtain, understand and use basic health information to navigate health services and make appropriate health decisions.

  • Safe Surgery auditor training resource
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  • Frequently asked questions: Partners in Care
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  • Falls
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    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.

  • Medicines
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    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.

  • Pressure injury prevention
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    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.