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Presentations from the second co-design workshop for Te ako mai i ngā pāmamaetanga me te wheako tāngata whaiora me te whānau | Learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience project

PUBLICATION: 13 Jan 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement

Presentations from the second supra-regional co-design workshops for Te ako mai i ngā pāmamaetanga me te wheako tāngata whaiora me te whānau | Learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience project held on 11 and 12 December 2019

Improving safety in response to mental health and addiction adverse events

NEWS: 10 Jan 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement

Learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience is one of the five priority areas for the Commission’s national five-year mental health and addiction quality improvement programme.

New community medication chart makes prescriptions clearer

NEWS: 6 Jan 2020, Medication Safety

Hutt Valley DHB and Nelson Marlborough DHB, with support from the Health Quality & Safety Commission have produced a new medication chart for use by district nursing in the community.

Congratulations to all the 2019 primary care quality improvement facilitator programme graduates

NEWS: 16 Dec 2019, Primary Care

Congratulations to the 17 representatives who work in primary care throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and completed the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s primary care quality improvement facilitator (PC QIF) programme this year.

Open Forum: Resilient health care - embracing the future

EVENT: 26 Mar 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission

An Open Forum featuring international and local speakers who specialise in concepts of resilient health care, and will share their understanding of implementing these concepts within primary and hospital care settings.

Presentations from the 2019 Quality Improvement Scientific Symposium

PUBLICATION: 22 Oct 2019, Building Leadership & Capability

Presentations from the Health Quality & Safety Commission's 2019 Quality Improvement Scientific Symposium.

CHRISP programme focuses on what matters to surgical patients

NEWS: 16 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission

Dr Paul Dalley presented on the comprehensive high-risk surgical patient pathway (CHRISP) being trialed at Capital & Coast DHB at the Choosing Wisely forum in May 2019.

Commission welcomes new chair and board members

NEWS: 4 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission

The Health Quality & Safety Commission is pleased to welcome a new board chair and five new board members.

Project to improve safety in response to mental health and addiction adverse events

NEWS: 2 Oct 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement

The Commission’s mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme recently launched a project to engage all stakeholders and improve the experience of consumers, family and whānau and staff involved in an adverse event.

Presentations and videos from the co-design workshop on learning from adverse events

PUBLICATION: 27 Sep 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement

Presentations from the first co-design workshop for Te ako mai i ngā pāmamaetanga me te wheako tāngata whaiora me te whānau | Learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience project.

Commission funds Māori leaders to attend Toitū Hauora Māori leadership summit

NEWS: 25 Sep 2019, Primary Care

Te Rau Ora hosted the annual Toitū Hauora Māori Health Leadership Summit at Te Papa in Wellington on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 August 2019.

Mental Health and Addiction Quality Improvement Programme congratulates Heather Casey

NEWS: 20 Sep 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement

Heather Casey, Southern District Health Board Director of Nursing Mental Health, Addictions and Intellectual Disability has been recognised at the 2019 Mental Health Service Awards of Australia and New Zealand programme for service to mental health.

New frailty guides to empower nurses and reduce variation for patients

NEWS: 18 Sep 2019, Aged Residential Care

As Aotearoa’s aged population increases, the recognition and treatment of frailty has become crucial to all health care environments.

Second learning session held for Connecting Care: Improving service transitions

NEWS: 23 Aug 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement

The second learning session for Connecting Care: Improving service transitions/Te tūhono i ngā manaakitanga, te whakapai ake i ngā whakawhitinga ratonga was held in Auckland on 7 August and Wellington on 8 August.

Presentations from the second learning session for Connecting care: improving service transitions | Te tūhono i ngā manaakitanga

PUBLICATION: 16 Aug 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement

Copies of presentations from the second learning session for Connecting care: improving service transitions held on 7 and 8 August 2019.

New data shows cost as the main barrier to accessing health services

NEWS: 26 Jul 2019, Health Quality Intelligence

New data from over 72,000 patients who responded to a survey about their experiences with New Zealand health services shows one in five reported not visiting a GP or nurse due to cost in the last 12 months.

Tuvaluan community drives message to improve skin infection rates

NEWS: 25 Jul 2019, Primary Care

A community-driven approach has played a vital role in a project that has reduced the rate of skin and soft tissue infections among under 25-year-olds in West Auckland’s Tuvaluan community by more than 40 percent.

Clinical lead Michal Boyd receives award for dedication to nurse practitioner profession

NEWS: 3 May 2019, Aged Residential Care

A nurse practitioner’s dedication to building the profession in New Zealand was honoured with a special pounamu at the Nurse Practitioners New Zealand conference.

Surgical briefings support practical decision making

PUBLICATION: 20 Jun 2019, Safe Surgery NZ

Alisa Ili, theatre nurse manager and Dr Andrew Connolly, general surgeon at Counties Manukau Health, share how start-of-list briefings support their decision making.

What are the benefits of surgical briefings?

PUBLICATION: 20 Jun 2019, Safe Surgery NZ

Alisa Ili, theatre nurse manager and Dr Andrew Connolly, general surgeon at Counties Manukau Health, share the benefits they've experienced from holding regular start-of-list briefings.

How surgical briefings are held at Counties Manukau Health

PUBLICATION: 20 Jun 2019, Safe Surgery NZ

Alisa Ili, theatre nurse manager and Dr Andrew Connolly, general surgeon, share how they conduct surgical briefings at Counties Manukau Health.

Surgical briefings are an efficient way to start the day

PUBLICATION: 20 Jun 2019, Safe Surgery NZ

Briefings take just five minutes and have a significant and positive impact on patient safety by improving communication and teamwork, reducing delays and identifying potential risks prior to surgery.

Streamlining patient enrolment delivers extra benefits

NEWS: 29 May 2019, Primary Care

A project to improve the patient enrolment process at Whanganui’s Gonville Health and make it more patient-centred and culturally appropriate has achieved benefits beyond its intended aims.

Aged residential care quality improvement facilitator programme started in March 2019

NEWS: 1 May 2019, Aged Residential Care

The Commission is pleased to be working with ACC who have funded a quality improvement (QI) facilitator programme.

Quality improvement facilitators graduate

NEWS: 30 Apr 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement

A second cohort of health professionals has recently graduated from the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s mental health and addiction programme’s quality improvement facilitator (QIF) course.