New Choosing Wisely video available for clinicians
NEWS: 4 Oct 2021, Other Topics
A new video for clinicians, highlighting the importance of Choosing Wisely, has been released by the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
NEWS: 4 Oct 2021, Other Topics
A new video for clinicians, highlighting the importance of Choosing Wisely, has been released by the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
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On 27 May 2020, when the world was in the depths of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Women released an awareness-raising campaign highlighting the potential for a...
NEWS: 14 Sep 2021, Adverse Events
A new film, Pou hihiri, Pou o te aroha | Healing and learning from harm, features consumers, clinicians and researchers talking about the benefits of following a restorative approach after a harmful event occurs in health care.
PUBLICATION: 1 Sep 2021, Adverse Events
Pou hihiri, Pou o te aroha | Healing and learning from harm was developed by the Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice and Stella Maris productions in consultation with several health sector and Māori partners, and funded by the Health Quality & Safety
NEWS: 27 Aug 2021
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 5 August to 26 August
NEWS: 12 Aug 2021, Safe Surgery NZ
The Health Quality & Safety Commission-led Safe Surgery NZ programme, which has greatly improved the way surgical operations are performed in Aotearoa New Zealand, finished in July 2021. This article looks at the achievements of the programme.
PUBLICATION: 5 Aug 2021, Safe Surgery NZ
Long and short versions of the Commission's repository of selected research papers on safer surgery.
NEWS: 6 Jul 2021, Health Quality Intelligence
A new report paints a stark picture of the health care challenges faced by Pacific peoples in New Zealand and calls for ambitious changes to the system to be made urgently.
PUBLICATION: 17 Jun 2021, ACP information for clinicians
Manual for all health professionals involved in having advance care planning conversations.
NEWS: 15 Apr 2021, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
A virtual workshop was held recently for representatives from the mental health and addiction (MHA) sector about the essential components of a high-quality adverse event review.
NEWS: 16 Apr 2021, Partners in Care
Saturday 17 April 2021 is World Hemophilia Day. Deon York, senior programme manager for the Commission’s consumer engagement programme, reflects on what the day represents and how it can encourage us to improve health and wellbeing for all in Aotearoa.
PUBLICATION: 2 Feb 2021, ACP information for clinicians
This video explores consumers' experiences of communication and decision-making, when things do not go well in health care and a clinician's perspective of what might contribute to that experience.
NEWS: 28 Jan 2021, Infection Prevention & Control
At a recent webinar held by the Health Quality & Safety Commission, hand hygiene coordinators shared initiatives that have worked in their district health boards (DHBs) since COVID-19 started.
PUBLICATION: 8 Apr 2020, ACP information for clinicians
This guide is for clinicians to reference when developing communication skills or when preparing for a conversation with a patient and their whānau.
NEWS: 10 Dec 2020, Adverse Events
The annual summary of adverse events data from 2019/20 has been released by the Health Quality & Safety Commission.