NEWS: 23 May 2019, Patient Safety Week
Planning for Patient Safety Week | Wiki Haumaru Tūroro (3–9 November 2019) is underway and the theme of ‘Improving communication by understanding implicit bias in health care’ has been chosen.
NEWS: 17 May 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Associate Professor Sue Crengle says the Choosing Wisely approach has the potential to reduce, maintain or increase inequities – and deliberate consideration of equity is needed across all Choosing Wisely activities.
NEWS: 15 Oct 2018, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The Connecting Care Project will see health service providers, consumers, and their families and whānau working together to better understand and improve the experience of transitions between or within providers.
NEWS: 5 Apr 2018, Advance Care Planning
Today, Thursday 5 April 2018 is national Advance Care Planning Day. Arthur Te Anini spoke to the NZ Herald about advance care planning and why it is important to him.
EVENT: 8 Mar 2018, Partners in Care
A 2-day interactive co-design forum to improve the quality and safety of our health system.
PUBLICATION: 27 Jul 2017, Health Quality Intelligence
PUBLICATION: 13 Jun 2017, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
This report considers perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity from 1 January to 31 December 2015; perinatal mortality from 2007 to 2015; maternal mortality from 2006 to 2015; and babies with neonatal encephalopathy from 2010 to 2015.
NEWS: 28 Feb 2017, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Maternal Morbidity Working Group has just released a set of brochures for women who have been very unwell while pregnant, and are aimed at making maternity care better for New Zealand women.
PUBLICATION: 28 Feb 2017, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
Information for women who have been very unwell while pregnant, and how their care review and stories can help make maternity care better for New Zealand women.
MEDIA RELEASE: 19 Aug 2016, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission says figures showing a continuing increase in the prescription of powerful opioids are a prompt for hospitals and primary health care providers to take a close look at their prescribing.
PUBLICATION: 2 Sep 2015, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
Presentations from the 'Building capacity in the maternity sector' workshop held on 23 June 2015.
PUBLICATION: 10 Aug 2015, Health Quality Intelligence
This report is the first to examine health literacy demands on both whānau and health services around asthma management for Māori children.
NEWS: 15 Jun 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Speech notes from Hon Peter Dunne's opening address at the 2015 Perioperative Mortality Review Committee workshop.
NEWS: 26 May 2015, Partners in Care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Partners in Care programme recently sought feedback from consumers and providers of health and disability services on a draft guide for district health boards (DHBs) about consumer engagement.
EVENT: 4 Jun 2015, Partners in Care
Changing Minds invites you to a free public panel discussion “Virtues or vices... the social constructs of addiction”.
PUBLICATION: 30 Jun 2015, Partners in Care
Readings and links to accompany the Health Quality & Safety Commission's document Engaging with consumers: a guide for district health boards (DHB), and are arranged by theme.
MEDIA RELEASE: 18 Mar 2015, Health Quality Intelligence
Evidence that the number of people being given one of the most dangerous classes of medicine varies up to three-fold around New Zealand is a cue for hospitals and primary health care providers to take a close look at their prescribing.
MEDIA RELEASE: 18 Feb 2015, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
The number of children and young people who die in New Zealand each year has more than halved since 1980, a new report shows.
NEWS: 4 Feb 2015
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says applications are now being taken for the Māori Health Development Scheme 2015–16.
NEWS: 17 Dec 2014, Partners in Care
Communication between Northland District Health Board (DHB) and the public is about to run smoother courtesy of the region’s first Northland Health Consumer Council.
PUBLICATION: 15 Dec 2014, Partners in Care
Turoa Haronga shares his personal experiences of health care including a diagnosis of prostate cancer, working in mental health services with pakeha and visiting Starship Hospital with his sick grandson.
PUBLICATION: 15 Dec 2014, Partners in Care
Ira Te Au shares a waiata introducing herself and her whānau. Ira talks about her life and how she began working in health. She had a diagnosis of diabetes following a health check and also had gall stones later in life.
PUBLICATION: 15 Dec 2014, Partners in Care
Video: Lana Bartlett shares the story of her father's hospital visit
PUBLICATION: 15 Dec 2014, Partners in Care
Querida Whatuira-Strickland discusses her role as kaitakawaenga (Māori liaison).
PAGE: 15 Dec 2014, Partners in Care
Querida Whatuira-Strickland discusses her role as kaitakawaenga (Māori liaison).