NEWS: 19 Dec 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 28 November to 18 December 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 4 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is pleased to welcome a new board chair and five new board members.
NEWS: 1 Oct 2019, Aged Residential Care
In around thirty years time it’s expected there will be more older people than children – for the first time in history.
NEWS: 18 Sep 2019, Aged Residential Care
As Aotearoa’s aged population increases, the recognition and treatment of frailty has become crucial to all health care environments.
NEWS: 3 May 2019, Aged Residential Care
A nurse practitioner’s dedication to building the profession in New Zealand was honoured with a special pounamu at the Nurse Practitioners New Zealand conference.
NEWS: 6 Jun 2018, Aged Residential Care
A small group of New Zealand health professionals recently participated in a study tour to the Netherlands, hosted by CareMetric principal Jan Weststrate. The group visited hospitals, health care agencies (regulatory and quality improvement), aged care...
EVENT: 18 Nov 2018, Reducing Harm from Falls
The 8th biennial Australian and New Zealand falls prevention conference is being held on 18–20 November 2018 in Hobart, Tasmania.
NEWS: 7 Apr 2017, Other Topics
The Commission would like to extend our thanks to all who got involved with Conversations that Count Day on 5 April.
PUBLICATION: 12 May 2017, Reducing Harm from Falls
This is an excerpt from Falling costs: the case for investment.
NEWS: 2 Mar 2017, Other Topics
A day to talk about advance care planning
NEWS: 13 Feb 2017, Other Topics
Talk about advance care planning on Wednesday 5 April.
EVENT: 3 Apr 2017, Reducing Harm from Falls
FallsStop is a free seminar about reducing falls in the hospital setting, designed for hospital falls champions, nursing management, and physiotherapy, gerontology and aged care representatives.
NEWS: 23 May 2016, Reducing Harm from Falls
The egg-cellent team of Mary-Anne Go, Bryden Ortega and Jean Barnard at the Regional Renal In-centre Dialysis Unit, Waikato Hospital are this year’s winners of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s April Falls display competition.
PUBLICATION: 29 Mar 2016, Reducing Harm from Falls
This toolkit is designed to help health care staff undertake quality improvement, specifically those working in age related residential care.
NEWS: 21 Jan 2016, Other Topics
The Health Quality & Safety Commission, ACC and the Ministry of Health have released a report that looks at the economic and social harm caused by pressure injuries.
NEWS: 16 Dec 2015
Places are still available for advance care planning (ACP) level 2 practitioner training being held throughout the country by the Advance Care Planning Cooperative in the first half of 2016.
NEWS: 23 Oct 2015
The October 2015 issue of the First, Do No Harm e-newsletter covers the recent activities of the Northern region patient safety campaign.
EVENT: 20 Oct 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
FallsStop is a seminar about reducing falls in the hospital setting, designed for hospital falls champions, nursing management, and physiotherapy, gerontology and aged care representatives.
NEWS: 21 May 2015, Building Leadership & Capability
Internationally renowned health writer and thinker Dr Atul Gawande has warned against reading too much into performance data for individual surgeons.
NEWS: 21 May 2015, Building Leadership & Capability
‘Give them the damned banana!’ was internationally renowned health writer and thinker Dr Atul Gawande’s message to aged residential care homes where safety concerns dominate at the expense of residents’ quality of life.
NEWS: 21 May 2015, Building Leadership & Capability
The 21st century is the century of the system, internationally renowned health writer Dr Atul Gawande told a forum of more than 500 people from New Zealand’s health, disability, aged-care and end-of-life care sectors on Monday 18 May in Wellington.
NEWS: 21 Apr 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
Over 200 health workers attended MidCentral District Health Board’s (DHB’s) falls prevention symposium at the Palmerston North Convention Centre, which was held as part of April Falls activities in the region.
MEDIA RELEASE: 10 Apr 2015
Dr Atul Gawande, one of the world’s biggest-selling and most influential health writers, is to give a public lecture in Wellington.
MEDIA RELEASE: 1 Apr 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
The importance of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Open for better care national patient safety campaign focus on reducing harm from falls in older people is underlined by figures that show the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) accepting mor
EVENT: 14 Apr 2015, Partners in Care
Manukau City Accident and Medical Clinic and ProCare Health are planning for a Manukau Wellness expo that will provide significant benefits for the Manukau, South Auckland community.