New Serious illness conversation guide available
NEWS: 24 Mar 2020, ACP information for clinicians
A new evidence-based guide to support clinicians to have quality conversations with seriously ill people and their whānau is now available.
NEWS: 24 Mar 2020, ACP information for clinicians
A new evidence-based guide to support clinicians to have quality conversations with seriously ill people and their whānau is now available.
NEWS: 19 Mar 2020, ACP information for clinicians
In light of the rapidly developing and changing situation with COVID-19, the Health Quality & Safety Commission is postponing Advance Care Planning Day until later in the year. The day was to be held on Friday 3 April.
PUBLICATION: 5 Feb 2020, Health Quality Intelligence
Results of the national inpatient experience survey for patients treated in November 2019.
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Many of us have been or are still on holiday enjoying some much-needed rest and relaxation. Despite the horrors of the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, the Australian fires, disturbing world events and, on a more local front, reports of hospitals under pressure we carry on living our lives the best we can.
NEWS: 17 Dec 2019, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Surgical teams and clinicians are being called to address equity for Māori by the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
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Clinical systems manager at Ryman Healthcare, Victoria Brevoort, shares how the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Ngā aratohu maimoa hauwarea | Frailty care guides are being used across their organisation.
NEWS: 20 Nov 2019, ACP information for clinicians
The advance care planning programme has had funding confirmed for a further three years.
NEWS: 13 Nov 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
On Friday 1 May 2020 in Wellington, the fourth Choosing Wisely campaign forum will be held in Wellington, in partnership with the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
PUBLICATION: 31 Oct 2019, Health Quality Intelligence
Results of the national inpatient experience survey for patients treated in August 2019.
NEWS: 24 Oct 2019, Patient Deterioration
The Commission is surveying clinical staff working in adult inpatient wards, including maternity, about their experiences and perceptions of caring for deteriorating patients and using recognition and response systems.
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Wiki Haumaru Tūroro | Patient Safety Week 2019 focuses on understanding bias in health care. In this blog, Josie* shares her story, including the unconscious bias she has faced as...
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In 1997 Courtenay’s five-month-old daughter contracted pneumococcal meningitis and ever since has lived with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, hydrocephalus, spastic quadriplegia and scoliosis. In 2012 Courtenay’s two-year-old son was diagnosed with autism.
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.
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This article was first published in O&G Magazine Vol 21 No 3 Spring 2019. Reproduced with permission.
PUBLICATION: 11 Sep 2019, Partners in Care
Alwena was diagnosed with stage 4 peritoneal cancer. In this video, her husband Jim (a health care professional) shares his story about Alwena's diagnosis and their whānau's experience with the health system.
NEWS: 10 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
A third national survey of district health board (DHB) surgical staff shows that in most instances people work together as a well-coordinated team.
PUBLICATION: 12 Sep 2019, Aged Residential Care
The frailty care guides are a suite of 26 nursing decision support tools covering the spectrum of frailty from deterioration to communication and advance treatment planning.
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Quality improvement (QI) is the use of systematic tools and methods to improve health care outcomes and experiences of care.