Health Quality & Safety Commission e-update, Issue 46 online now
NEWS: 17 Nov 2015
Issue 46 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
NEWS: 17 Nov 2015
Issue 46 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
NEWS: 30 Oct 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission wishes to appoint two nursing representatives and a surgeon to the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
NEWS: 17 Jul 2015, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
The trial Suicide Mortality Review Committee (SUMRC) has completed consultation on its draft report.
PUBLICATION: 7 Jul 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Presentations from the 'Mortality review – making it work for you and your patients' workshop from the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee, held on 15 June 2015.
NEWS: 30 Jun 2015, Health Quality Intelligence
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s newest Atlas of Healthcare Variation domain offers a look into the rate of infection and community antibiotic use after surgery.
MEDIA RELEASE: 23 Jun 2015, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee’s (PMMRC’s) ninth annual report shows there was one death for every 100 babies born in New Zealand in 2013.
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: 15 Jun 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne is welcoming today’s release of the fourth annual Perioperative Mortality Review Committee’s (POMRC) report.
NEWS: 15 Jun 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The fourth report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee covering the period from 2008-2012 includes several new areas: coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG), percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PCTA), bariatric surgery and severe post
NEWS: 7 May 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The collection of data regarding deaths during and after surgery can be used to influence surgical safety, delegates to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeon’s 84th Annual Scientific Conference have been told.
PUBLICATION: 15 Jun 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Fourth report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
NEWS: 4 May 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (POMRC) chair Dr Leona Wilson has just returned from the UK where she received some very positive feedback on the work the POMRC was doing and how it was perceived.
PUBLICATION: 23 Jun 2015, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
Placeholder for PMMRC report 2015
NEWS: 21 Apr 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Registration is open for the annual workshop of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee, (POMRC) to be held on 15 June 2015 at the Heritage Hotel in Auckland.
EVENT: 15 Jun 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Annual workshop of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee. Bring your team and learn how you can make hospital-based mortality review work for you.
EVENT: 23 Jun 2015, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
Building capacity in the maternity sector: Perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity – building capacity in the maternity sector: Perinatal and maternal morbidity Annual conference of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
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: 22 Dec 2014, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission Board is seeking new members for the Family Violence Death Review Committee (FVDRC), with expertise in Family Violence. There are two vacancies available.
MEDIA RELEASE: 17 Dec 2014, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
A report into the deaths of children in motorcycle, quad bike and other ‘off-road vehicle’ accidents is calling for cross-sector collaboration to tackle what is the country’s second largest cause of recreational death for those aged under 15.
PUBLICATION: 17 Dec 2014, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Special report from the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee: Child and youth mortality from motorcycle, quad bike and motorised agricultural vehicle use, with a focus on deaths under age 15 years.
MEDIA RELEASE: 10 Dec 2014, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Is the latch on the gate to your swimming pool working properly? Are there any parts of the fence small children might crawl under? Checking these and other aspects of a pool is one of the things New Zealanders can do to help children stay safe...
MEDIA RELEASE: 5 Dec 2014, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
It is never too early for parents and parents-to-be to learn about safe sleeping practices for babies, says the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
PUBLICATION: 21 Nov 2014, Health Quality & Safety Commission
This briefing to the incoming Minister of Health outlines the role of the Health Quality & Safety Commission in improving the quality and safety of the health and disability sector.
PUBLICATION: 18 Nov 2014, Patient Safety Week
Presentations from the perioperative harm-focused workshop with Dr James Bagian, held on Tuesday 4 November 2014.
NEWS: 3 Nov 2014, Safe Surgery NZ
Blood clots and YOU is a new venous thromboembolism (VTE) brochure developed by Southern Cross Hospitals as a resource for GPs to share and discuss with patients going on to surgery.