NEWS: 30 Jun 2020, Health Quality Intelligence
From 1 July 2020, the Health Quality & Safety Commission expects district health boards (DHBs) to start collecting data again for all quality and safety measures (QSMs), following the recent interruption due to COVID-19.
NEWS: 22 Apr 2020, Building Leadership & Capability
Timaru physiotherapist Sonya Veale is the latest recipient of an Open for leadership award.
NEWS: 16 Apr 2020, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has temporarily suspended the requirement for DHBs to collect and report on QSM measures that are manually collected until 30 June 2020.
PUBLICATION: 1 Apr 2020, Reducing Harm from Falls
In this video Matt Boyd from Adapt Research introduces the 2020 reducing harm from falls evidence base.
PUBLICATION: 1 Apr 2020, Reducing Harm from Falls
This document provides recent literature of interest from the Reducing harm from falls: recommended evidence-based resources 2020.
PUBLICATION: 1 Apr 2020, Reducing Harm from Falls
The reducing harm from falls recommended evidence-based resources 2020 includes systematic reviews, clinical guidelines and toolkits.
NEWS: 30 Mar 2020, Advance Care Planning
Aotearoa is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is an unsettling time, and it is natural for people to be anxious. However, it is also an opportunity for people to plan for a scenario where they may become suddenly unwell.
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.
PUBLICATION: 22 Oct 2019, Building Leadership & Capability
Presentations from the Health Quality & Safety Commission's 2019 Quality Improvement Scientific Symposium.
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, National Trauma Network
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.