PUBLICATION: 20 Dec 2016, Building Leadership & Capability
In 2012 the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation launched Choosing Wisely® – a campaign with a goal of advancing a national dialogue on avoiding wasteful or unnecessary medical tests, treatments and procedures.
PUBLICATION: 20 Dec 2016, Building Leadership & Capability
BMJ Quality & Safety provides free ‘online first’ articles and a table of contents for the journal which includes some open access material by free subscription.
PUBLICATION: 20 Dec 2016, Building Leadership & Capability
The Edge: Think, Connect, Share, Change is a free social platform committed to finding, sharing, curating and creating the boldest and most innovative new ideas for changing health and care.
PUBLICATION: 20 Dec 2016, Building Leadership & Capability
The National Patient Safety Foundation has a vision to create a world where patients and those who care for them are free from harm.
PUBLICATION: 20 Dec 2016, Building Leadership & Capability
This report from the UK’s Health & Social Care Information Centre presents statistics for April 2014–April 2015 from the NHS safety thermometer.
PUBLICATION: 20 Dec 2016, Building Leadership & Capability
This report recognises areas of progress, highlights remaining gaps, and most importantly, details specific recommendations to accelerate progress in patient safety improvement.
MEDIA RELEASE: 2 Dec 2016, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Around 3000 lives have been saved in the past 20 years because of efforts to prevent sudden unexpected death in infants (SUDI).
EVENT: 3 Apr 2017, Reducing Harm from Falls
FallsStop is a free seminar about reducing falls in the hospital setting, designed for hospital falls champions, nursing management, and physiotherapy, gerontology and aged care representatives.
NEWS: 3 Oct 2016, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Ministry of Health, midwives and obstetricians have moved to reassure New Zealanders that maternity services in this country are robust
NEWS: 21 Sep 2016
Arthur Te Anini is on a mission. The 67-year-old South Aucklander wants to convince his fellow Māori to start talking about future health care and end of life care.
NEWS: 6 Sep 2016
Issue 54 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
NEWS: 5 Sep 2016
The countdown is on. In less than a week's time, an expected 1,500 health and improvement experts, clinicians, policy makers, and frontline teams from some 30 countries will convene for the 5th APAC Forum in Sydney.
NEWS: 21 Jun 2016, Partners in Care
The Commission is delighted to be able to offer a limited number of free registrations for consumers, patients and their family/whānau to the 4th World Congress on Integrated Care.
EVENT: 19 May 2016
Safekids Aotearoa’s child injury prevention workshop series is back and this year’s theme is home safety.
NEWS: 23 May 2016, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Law Commission has released its final report on the legal response to victims of family violence who commit homicide.
NEWS: 13 Apr 2016, Health Quality Intelligence
The new System Level Measures for the health sector have a strong quality improvement focus. The six new measures were announced recently by Minister of Health Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman.
NEWS: 11 Mar 2016, Partners in Care
The Commission’s Let’s PLAN for better care health literacy tool is being used by the Ministry of Social Development’s Work and Income case managers in Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti to help their clients make the most of their visits to their GP and other he
EVENT: 11 Apr 2016, Other Topics
These free seminars will suit health care management, nurses, doctors and hospital health care assistants, and provide high-level ideas, thoughtprovoking approaches and world-leading advice about preventing pressure injuries.
NEWS: 29 Feb 2016
Issue 48 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
MEDIA RELEASE: 25 Feb 2016, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Family Violence Death Review Committee (FVDRC) says agencies must take more responsibility for the safety of family violence victims, rather than expecting victims to keep themselves safe from abusive partners.
NEWS: 25 Feb 2016, Partners in Care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s three-step model for better health literacy is being used to improve health literacy in Dunedin.
EVENT: 22 Mar 2016, Other Topics
The Health Quality & Safety Commission, in partnership with the Health Roundtable, will host Jeanne Huddleston from the Mayo Clinic to deliver a full day interactive workshop on improving reliability of systems to detect and rescue deteriorating patients.
NEWS: 20 Jan 2016
Free CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) competency training is now available to staff from New Zealand district health boards (DHB) and primary health organisations.
NEWS: 5 Jan 2016, Partners in Care
Don’t forget about Let’s PLAN – the free consumer resource developed by the Commission that encourages people to plan ahead for visits to their GP or other primary health care professional.
NEWS: 11 Nov 2015
Commission working with Advance Care Planning Cooperative to promote 2016 Conversations that Count Day and advance care planning resources.