New Serious illness conversation guide available
NEWS: 24 Mar 2020, Advance Care Planning
A new evidence-based guide to support clinicians to have quality conversations with seriously ill people and their whānau is now available.
NEWS: 24 Mar 2020, Advance Care Planning
A new evidence-based guide to support clinicians to have quality conversations with seriously ill people and their whānau is now available.
EVENT: 9 May 2019, Advance Care Planning
In association with the Choosing Wisely Forum, the Health Quality & Safety Commission is offering three-hour Serious Illness Conversation Guide training on Thursday 9 May 2019.
NEWS: 29 Jan 2019, Advance Care Planning
In association with the Choosing Wisely Forum, the Health Quality & Safety Commission is offering three-hour Serious Illness Conversation Guide training on Thursday 9 May 2019.
EVENT: 15 Mar 2018, Safe Surgery NZ
This is your opportunity to join other surgical teams in your area to find out about the safe surgery programme's impact to date and share your experience of the teamwork and communication interventions.
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The series brings renowned international speakers to New Zealand, where the health care sector can learn from their experiences in forums and seminars.
NEWS: 20 Apr 2016
Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel has spoken about the importance of having conversations with loved ones about what’s important to you at the end of life.
NEWS: 24 Aug 2015
The August 2015 issue of the National Health IT Board (NHITB) newsletter is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 23 Jun 2015, Open for better care
Issue 18 of the Open for better care e-newsletter is now available online.
NEWS: 23 Jun 2015, Open for better care
Issue 18 of the Open for better care e-newsletter is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 12 Jun 2015, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Videos from the forum with Dr Atul Gawande at Te Papa on Monday 18 May 2015.
PUBLICATION: 12 Jun 2015, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Presentations from the forum with Dr Atul Gawande at Te Papa on Monday 18 May 2015.
NEWS: 4 Jun 2015, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Issue 42 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
NEWS: 21 May 2015, Building Leadership & Capability
Internationally renowned health writer and thinker Dr Atul Gawande has warned against reading too much into performance data for individual surgeons.
NEWS: 21 May 2015, Building Leadership & Capability
‘Give them the damned banana!’ was internationally renowned health writer and thinker Dr Atul Gawande’s message to aged residential care homes where safety concerns dominate at the expense of residents’ quality of life.
NEWS: 21 May 2015, Building Leadership & Capability
The 21st century is the century of the system, internationally renowned health writer Dr Atul Gawande told a forum of more than 500 people from New Zealand’s health, disability, aged-care and end-of-life care sectors on Monday 18 May in Wellington.
NEWS: 11 May 2015, Open for better care
Issue 17 of the Open for better care e-newsletter is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 11 May 2015, Open for better care
Issue 17 of the Open for better care e-newsletter is now available online.
NEWS: 6 May 2015
This hot-off-the-press New Yorker article by Dr Atul Gawande has a taste of some of the issues he will be covering when he is in New Zealand in just under two weeks.
NEWS: 21 Apr 2015, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Issue 41 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
MEDIA RELEASE: 16 Apr 2015
Today is Conversations that Count Day, organised by the National Advance Care Planning Cooperative (ACP) to prompt people to talk with their ‘partner, a mate, with the girls over lunch, or around the barbie’ about the kind of care they would want if they
MEDIA RELEASE: 10 Apr 2015
Dr Atul Gawande, one of the world’s biggest-selling and most influential health writers, is to give a public lecture in Wellington.
EVENT: 18 May 2015, Building Leadership & Capability
Don't miss this opportunity to hear Dr Atul Gawande, one of the world’s biggest-selling and most influential health writers, speak at a public lecture in Wellington.
MEDIA RELEASE: 5 Mar 2015
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is urging people working in the health and disability and aged care sectors to take full advantage of a rare opportunity to hear and talk with one of the world’s most respected and forward-thinking health communicato