NEWS: 10 Jan 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Connecting care is one of the five priority areas for the Commission’s national five-year mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme.
NEWS: 31 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 10 to 30 October 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 14 Oct 2019, Infection Prevention & Control
This International Infection Prevention and Control Week (13–19 October 2019), the Health Quality & Safety Commission is encouraging hospital staff and senior leaders in infection prevention and control (IPC) to take part in walk rounds.
NEWS: 28 May 2019, Infection Prevention & Control
DHBs have agreed to fund a new model for an effective and sustainable whole-of-sector approach to healthcare associated infection (HAI) in New Zealand.
PUBLICATION: 8 May 2019, Infection Prevention & Control
For providers implementing and delivering a national Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme in New Zealand.
NEWS: 2 May 2019, Infection Prevention & Control
New Zealand has an opportunity to participate in a global survey to assess infection prevention and control programmes in health care facilities as part of World Hand Hygiene Day on 5 May.
NEWS: 30 Apr 2019, Health Quality Intelligence
New data shows 49 percent of those who visited their GP in 2017 were dispensed at least one antibiotic.The data is part of the new Atlas of Healthcare Variation on community use of antibiotics released by the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
NEWS: 14 Mar 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 22 February–14 March 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 19 Feb 2019, Infection Prevention & Control
Over the past year the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s infection prevention and control programme team has facilitated the implementation of a preoperative anti-staphylococcal bundle within the Surgical Site Infection Improvement (SSII) Programme.
PUBLICATION: 19 Dec 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
Guide for providers implementing and delivering a national Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme in New Zealand
PUBLICATION: 19 Dec 2018, Patient Safety Week
Evaluation of Patient Safety Week 2018, an awareness-raising week held on 4–10 November focused on infection prevention and control.
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.
PUBLICATION: 28 Nov 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
This MS Word template is to support providers in developing and implementing an IPC walk rounds programme.
PUBLICATION: 28 Nov 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
This MS Word template is to support providers in developing and implementing an IPC walk rounds programme.
PUBLICATION: 28 Nov 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
This MS Word template is to support providers in developing and implementing an IPC walk rounds programme.
PUBLICATION: 28 Nov 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
This MS Word template is to support providers in developing and implementing an IPC walk rounds programme.
PUBLICATION: 28 Nov 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
This MS Word template is to support providers in developing and implementing an IPC walk rounds programme.
PUBLICATION: 28 Nov 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
This MS Word template is designed to support providers in planning and implementing an IPC walk rounds programme.
PUBLICATION: 28 Nov 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
This resource is designed to help hospital staff plan and engage executive and senior leaders in IPC walk rounds, capture issues and suggestions, and develop and implement improvements.
NEWS: 28 Nov 2018, Patient Safety Week
A huge thank you to everyone who supported Patient Safety Week 2018. The week, which focused on infection prevention and control, and in particular good hand hygiene, ran from 4 to 10 November.
NEWS: 12 Nov 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
With very few new antibiotics having been developed in recent years, health agencies say their responsible use is absolutely critical to people’s health.
NEWS: 15 Oct 2018, Infection Prevention & Control
A new report has found that infections following hip and knee replacements have fallen, meaning reduced harm to patients.
NEWS: 10 Sep 2018, Patient Safety Week
Orders are open for Patient Safety Week 2018 resources. With this year's focus on infection prevention and control, our PSW resources encourage consumers and health professionals to ask: are you giving germs a hand?
NEWS: 4 Sep 2018, Patient Safety Week
This Patient Safety Week update provides information about orders, resources and activity for PSW 2018.
NEWS: 13 Jul 2018, Patient Safety Week
The latest news about Patient Safety Week 2018, being held from 4–10 November 2018.