NEWS: 13 Dec 2019, Partners in Care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is piloting a new consumer engagement quality and safety marker in four district health boards from December 2019.
NEWS: 21 Nov 2019, Adverse Events
The annual Learning from adverse events report from the Health Quality & Safety Commission has been released.
EVENT: 29 Nov 2020, Reducing Harm from Falls
The 9th Biennial Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Conference will be held in Auckland from 29 November to 1 December 2020.
PUBLICATION: 22 Oct 2019, Building Leadership & Capability
Presentations from the Health Quality & Safety Commission's 2019 Quality Improvement Scientific Symposium.
PUBLICATION: 12 Sep 2019, Medication Safety
Tools to guide which medicines should be considered for deprescribing, part of the Commission's appropriate prescribing toolkit.
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.
NEWS: 16 May 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 25 April to 16 May 2019 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 29 Apr 2019, Aged Residential Care
Update of a toolkit originally published in 2016 by our falls programme.
NEWS: 24 Apr 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 5–24 April 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 9 Apr 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is partnering with ACC and the Major Trauma National Clinical Network, with a focus on reducing trauma deaths. The main cause of major trauma is road traffic crashes and falls, followed by assaults.
PUBLICATION: 9 Apr 2019, Medication Safety
Techniques for reviewing an event and implementing change and improvements.
PUBLICATION: 5 Apr 2019, Reducing Harm from Falls
Recording of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's videoconference, where the 2019 reducing harm from falls evidence base was introduced.
NEWS: 4 Apr 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 15 March–4 April 2019 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 26 Mar 2019, Reducing Harm from Falls
Includes systematic reviews, clinical guidelines and toolkits.
PUBLICATION: 26 Mar 2019, Reducing Harm from Falls
To accompany the 2019 falls evidence base. Reproduced with permission.
PUBLICATION: 26 Mar 2019, Reducing Harm from Falls
This report expands on the topic of falls and cognitive impairment, and presents evidence and implementation strategies for interventions to help reduce falls and harm from falls in individuals with cognitive impairment.
NEWS: 22 Jan 2019, Health Quality Intelligence
The Commission has developed a new online portal to make it easier for district health boards (DHBs) to submit data for its quality and safety markers (QSMs).
PUBLICATION: 19 Dec 2018, Health Quality Intelligence
Our six-monthly report on the harm prevented, and money saved, in areas the Commission focuses on or raises awareness about.
NEWS: 7 Dec 2018, Adverse Events
The latest Learning from adverse events report shows health providers in New Zealand are continuing to develop and improve their systems for reporting, reviewing and learning from adverse events.
NEWS: 8 Nov 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 18 October–7 November 2018 is now available online.
NEWS: 18 Oct 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 27 September–17 October 2018 is now available online.
NEWS: 27 Sep 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The lack of a systematic way to assess frailty in older people – and therefore to treat them appropriately – prompted Hawke’s Bay geriatrician Dr Tim Frendin and colleagues to develop the Assessment of Robustness in Ageing (ARIA) tool.
NEWS: 27 Sep 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 6–26 September 2018 is now available online.
NEWS: 6 Sep 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 16 August–5 September 2018 is now available online.
NEWS: 30 Aug 2018, Reducing Harm from Falls
Authors of the newly released 2018 annual report of the Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry (ANZHFR) are calling for hospitals to make osteoporosis plans a priority for patients leaving hospital after a hip fracture.