NEWS: 19 Jul 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The national mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme (QIP) is building quality improvement capability in the MHA sector by sponsoring and delivering a number of educational courses and workshops.
NEWS: 19 Jul 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience project / Te ako mai i ngā pāmamaetanga me te wheako tāngata whaiora me te whānau held a workshop for mental health and addiction clinical leaders on Wednesday 26 June 2019.
NEWS: 4 Jul 2019, Primary Care
A Hastings community pharmacy’s project to improve asthma management in a group of Māori and Pacific children has left everyone breathing easier.
NEWS: 26 Jun 2019, Patient Safety Week
Planning for Patient Safety Week | Wiki Haumaru Tūroro (3–9 November 2019) continues. This year we are again partnering with ACC to promote the week. This year’s theme is ‘Improving communication by understanding implicit bias in health care’.
PUBLICATION: 25 Jun 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Below are the available videos of speaker presentations, from the third learning session on eliminating seclusion by 2020.
PUBLICATION: 5 Jun 2019, Primary Care
This document, Towards quality improvement at scale in the New Zealand primary care setting, was commissioned to help us plan how to achieve quality improvement at scale in primary care.
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.
PUBLICATION: 31 May 2019, Partners in Care
Presentations from the all-of-Commission consumer's forum help on 22 May 2019.
NEWS: 31 May 2019, Partners in Care
Consumer network member, Martine Abel-Williamson attended the launch of a new guide last month, which aims to help people with a disability navigate the process of making a complaint to the United Nations.
NEWS: 30 May 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) is seeking a forensic pathologist to join the Maternal Mortality Review Working Group (MMRWG).
NEWS: 29 May 2019, Primary Care
A project to improve the patient enrolment process at Whanganui’s Gonville Health and make it more patient-centred and culturally appropriate has achieved benefits beyond its intended aims.
NEWS: 23 May 2019, Patient Safety Week
Planning for Patient Safety Week | Wiki Haumaru Tūroro (3–9 November 2019) is underway and the theme of ‘Improving communication by understanding implicit bias in health care’ has been chosen.
NEWS: 8 May 2019, Primary Care
A project to expand Gisborne-based Turanga Health’s workplace wellness programme with follow up home visits is ensuring at-risk clients have access to wrap-around services.
NEWS: 6 May 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) is seeking a new member to join its Maternal Mortality Review Working Group (MMRWG).
NEWS: 1 May 2019, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is seeking a lived-experience (consumer) member to join the Family Violence Death Review Committee.
NEWS: 30 Apr 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
A second cohort of health professionals has recently graduated from the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s mental health and addiction programme’s quality improvement facilitator (QIF) course.
EVENT: 10 Oct 2019, Building Leadership & Capability
The Commission is hosting its 5th annual scientific symposium featuring keynote speakers, peer-reviewed papers, interactive sessions and learning and networking opportunities.
NEWS: 17 Apr 2019, Primary Care
West Coast Primary Health Organisation (PHO) has partnered with Māori health and social services provider, Poutini Waiora, in a project to improve outcomes for targeted Buller Medical Māori and Pacific clients with diabetes.
NEWS: 17 Apr 2019, Partners in Care
A powerful and moving speech from Te Rina Ruru was the focus of a grand round at Bay of Plenty District Health Board last week.
NEWS: 5 Apr 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
One in 10 Kiwis don’t feel comfortable asking their doctor about whether a treatment or test is necessary, a survey by Consumer NZ and the Council of Medical Colleges has found.
NEWS: 4 Apr 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Kaushiki Roy will be one of the consumer voices at the Choosing Wisely forum, Continuing the Conversation. The forum will take place at Te Wharewaka o Poneke in Wellington on Friday 10 May, 2019.
NEWS: 14 Mar 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 22 February–14 March 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 11 Mar 2019, Primary Care
Eight projects from primary care provider teams from around the country have been selected for the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Whakakotahi 2019 quality improvement programme.
NEWS: 22 Feb 2019, Patient Deterioration
Sheila attended the Patient Deterioration: current state and future developments conference in November 2018, which was co-hosted by the Commission and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society. She shares her thoughts in this report.
NEWS: 21 Feb 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 1–21 February 2019 is now available online.