NEWS: 19 May 2020, Patient Deterioration
When Angela felt her voice wasn’t being heard during her husband Geoff’s stay in Wellington Regional Hospital, the Kōrero mai service supported her to escalate her concerns about his deteriorating health.
NEWS: 19 May 2020, Aged Residential Care
New Zealanders need to remove the stigma from aged care homes and fund them properly, write University of Auckland experts Michal Boyd, Merryn Gott, Jackie Robinson and Aileen Collier.
NEWS: 12 May 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
NEWS: 5 May 2020, Infection Prevention & Control
World Hand Hygiene Day on Tuesday 5 May is a timely reminder of the critical role good hand hygiene practice plays in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
PUBLICATION: 23 Apr 2020, talkingCOVID
In response to requests from the aged residential care sector, we have developed a shared goals of care form. It builds on the hospital shared goals of care work and the Frailty Care Guide.
PUBLICATION: 23 Apr 2020, talkingCOVID
A brief PowerPoint presentation to use when introducing shared goals of care to a hospital multidisciplinary team.
EVENT: 13 May 2020, Infection Prevention & Control
A webinar from the World Health Organization about coronavirus infections among health care workers: what we know about COVID-19 and what we have learned from other outbreaks.
EVENT: 6 May 2020, Infection Prevention & Control
A webinar from the World Health Organization: celebrating nurses and midwives for clean care in the age of COVID-19.
EVENT: 29 Apr 2020, Infection Prevention & Control
A webinar from the World Health Organization: The SARS-CoV-2 virus modes of transmission and related IPC measures.
EVENT: 22 Apr 2020, Infection Prevention & Control
A webinar from the World Health Organization: A model hospital for IPC and management of COVID-19 patients.
NEWS: 21 Apr 2020, ACP information for consumers
Most of us can only imagine what having someone die in front of us would be like, but it’s part of the job for Wellington paramedic, Sean Thompson.
NEWS: 21 Apr 2020, ACP information for consumers
A few years ago, Jan Wallace was invited to join the locality health forum for her hospital board area and became particularly interested in palliative care, also known as end-of-life care.
NEWS: 20 Apr 2020, Patient Deterioration
The national patient deterioration programme says there is no need to change the New Zealand early warning score (NZEWS) parameters during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
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Information to support leaders in their roles through maintaining their own wellbeing in times of crisis, enabling them to care for the teams they work with.
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Information and support for people working in health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
NEWS: 30 Mar 2020, ACP information for consumers
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.
PUBLICATION: 27 Mar 2020, talkingCOVID
This factsheet is for response teams supporting shared goals of care decisions (Rapid response and medical emergency teams, hospital coordinators and other responders).
PUBLICATION: 25 Mar 2020, talkingCOVID
These shared goals of care forms are available to all hospitals wanting to use them.