NEWS: 18 Nov 2020, Infection Prevention & Control
As a result of increasing levels of antimicrobial resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines are becoming ineffective, and health workers and the public are urged to unite to take action.
NEWS: 3 Nov 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
In a series of articles on Aotearoa New Zealand’s resilient health care during COVID-19, we hear about Te Rohe o Te Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, Ngāti Kahungunu and the response to COVID-19 between February and May 2020.
NEWS: 4 Sep 2020, Primary Care
A Whānau Ora approach to encourage people with diabetes to take control of their own health is having success in the King Country.
NEWS: 31 Jul 2020, Primary Care
Wanting better management of her baby daughter’s severe facial eczema was behind a Hamilton practice nurse creating a clinic that is delivering great results for the practice’s under five-year-olds suffering from the painful skin condition.
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In this first in a series of short, rapid-fire health quality intelligence papers, the Health Quality & Safety Commission raises the question of our national response to the consequences of...
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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.
EVENT: 10 Mar 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
An Open Forum featuring Mr Samer Nashef, cardiac surgeon, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK and Dr Stephen Duckett, director of the health programme, Grattan Institute, Victoria, Australia.
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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, Health Quality & Safety Commission
On International Day of Older Persons, the Choosing Wisely campaign is encouraging people to think twice before they have a test, treatment or procedure.
EVENT: 12 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Mataora: Encounters between Medicine and the Arts is a brand new event exploring a view of medicine and health that values imaginative and philosophical responses along with clinical and scientific thinking.
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: 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: 29 Apr 2019, Patient Deterioration
Patients and whānau often say ‘something just doesn’t feel right’ and they are often correct, recognising subtle signs of patient deterioration in hospital, even when vital signs are normal.
NEWS: 9 Apr 2019
A healthy 50-year-old man and father of three was symptom free but proceeded with a PSA test. The results were slightly high, so he went for a biopsy. During the biopsy he got an infection which caused a stroke due to a septic embolus, and he lost f
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: 2 Apr 2019, Medication Safety
A series of medicine information leaflets for New Zealand health consumers, My Medicines, is being made available in te reo Māori.
NEWS: 16 Jan 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Summer in New Zealand is about days at the beach, the sound of cicadas and the smell of melting tar. But for some people it can also be synonymous with having skin rashes and sore knees and backs from gardening or backyard cricket; not to mention tennis..
PUBLICATION: 9 Jan 2019, Medication Safety
Consumer poster available in English and te reo Māori to help patients, caregivers, families and whānau talk about medication with their health care providers.
NEWS: 19 Nov 2018, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Clarissa Chandrahasen has experienced first-hand the trauma and distress of being secluded.
NEWS: 12 Nov 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
With very few new antibiotics having been developed in recent years, health agencies say their responsible use is absolutely critical to people’s health.