PUBLICATION: 30 Jun 2020, Health Quality Intelligence
This report seeks to give readers a focused review of responses to the general practice section of the 2019 New Zealand primary care patient experience survey.
NEWS: 19 Jun 2020, Health Quality Intelligence
Updated data from over 79,000 patients who responded to a survey about their experiences with Aotearoa New Zealand health services shows 17 percent reported not visiting a GP or nurse due to cost in the last 12 months.
EVENT: 1 Jul 2020, Primary Care
Join this webinar to get the latest information about gout and its management in Aotearoa New Zealand.
NEWS: 21 May 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 30 April–20 May 2020 is now available online.
NEWS: 4 Nov 2019, Aotearoa Patient Safety Day
The Choosing Wisely campaign is welcoming new videos on understanding bias in health care, and encourages all health professionals to watch them.
NEWS: 29 Aug 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 8 to 28 August 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 26 Jul 2019, Health Quality Intelligence
New data from over 72,000 patients who responded to a survey about their experiences with New Zealand health services shows one in five reported not visiting a GP or nurse due to cost in the last 12 months.
NEWS: 27 Jun 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 7 to 27 June 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 12 Jun 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
A paper published in the latest New Zealand Medical Journal says the Choosing Wisely campaign must ensure the message 'more is not necessarily better' does not inadvertently worsen the under-treatment for Māori and other groups.
NEWS: 5 Jun 2019, Primary Care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is pleased to share the findings from consumer, health service and stakeholder engagement, to inform the future direction and priorities in our primary care programme.
NEWS: 30 Apr 2019, Health Quality Intelligence
New data shows 49 percent of those who visited their GP in 2017 were dispensed at least one antibiotic.The data is part of the new Atlas of Healthcare Variation on community use of antibiotics released by the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
NEWS: 20 Dec 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 28 November–19 December 2018 is now available online.
NEWS: 8 Nov 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
Māori and Pacific peoples are less likely to receive appropriate treatment for gout, despite being significantly more likely to be affected by the disease than other ethnicities.
NEWS: 29 Oct 2018, Partners in Care
Over the past few weeks, our Partners in Care team was invited to meet with some of the district health board’s consumer councils to talk about the Commission’s consumer engagement work.
EVENT: 21 Sep 2018, Patient Deterioration
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is hosting a webinar on Friday 21 September from 1–2pm, focusing on the patient deterioration domain of the Atlas of Healthcare Variation.
NEWS: 31 May 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has launched a new, publicly-available dashboard of health system quality that shows at a glance how individual district health boards (DHBs) are performing in a variety of areas.
PUBLICATION: 27 Apr 2018, Medication Safety
Chronic pain should be carefully evaluated to decide which analgesic (pain reliever) is appropriate.
NEWS: 12 Apr 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 22 March–11 April 2018 is now available online.
MEDIA RELEASE: 3 Apr 2018, Reducing Harm from Falls
Live Stronger for Longer is the theme of this year’s ‘April Falls’ campaign. The annual campaign raises awareness of the harm caused by falls, and what can be done to prevent them.
NEWS: 3 Apr 2018, Reducing Harm from Falls
Live Stronger for Longer is the theme of this year’s ‘April Falls’ campaign. The annual campaign raises awareness of the harm caused by falls, and what can be done to prevent them.
NEWS: 28 Feb 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 1–28 February 2018 is now available online.
NEWS: 31 Jan 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 21 December 2017–20 December 2017 is now available online.
NEWS: 20 Dec 2017, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has updated information on the use of opioids for 2016 in its Atlas of Healthcare Variation.
NEWS: 23 Nov 2017, Aotearoa Patient Safety Day
A huge thank you to everyone who supported Patient Safety Week 2017. The week, which was focused on medication safety, ran from 5 to 11 November and saw a record number of resources ordered.