NEWS: 13 Aug 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 23 July–12 August 2020 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 13 Aug 2020, Primary Care
The Hutt Union and Community Health Service undertook an ambitious project to reduce average blood glucose levels, as measured by HbA1c, in its low-decile and largely Pacific and Māori community
NEWS: 12 Aug 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is the latest signatory of the government Accessibility Charter – a commitment to providing accessible information and online tools to all disabled people.
NEWS: 7 Aug 2020, National Trauma Network
The new national trauma rehabilitation quality improvement project, which aims to understand and improve rehabilitation for major trauma patients, is underway.
NEWS: 7 Aug 2020, Primary Care
A project to understand why Tongan diabetes patients were reluctant to begin insulin treatment has resulted in improved medication uptake, and many are now being treated for other, previously undiagnosed conditions, thanks to greater engagement.
PUBLICATION: 5 Aug 2020, Health Quality Intelligence
This report from The King's Fund provides an analysis of trends in inpatient surveys in NHS acute trusts in England from 2005–13.
PUBLICATION: 31 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The mental health and addiction quality improvement programme conducts some events online. This resource provides information for those new to using Zoom, giving them everything they need to get started and explaining how to use Zoom for online learning.
NEWS: 31 Jul 2020, Primary Care
Whakakotahi is one of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s key initiatives in primary care. A final evaluation of Whakakotahi was completed by Synergia and builds on the annual interim reports completed in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
NEWS: 31 Jul 2020, Primary Care
Wanting better management of her baby daughter’s severe facial eczema was behind a Hamilton practice nurse creating a clinic that is delivering great results for the practice’s under five-year-olds suffering from the painful skin condition.
NEWS: 23 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
A survey about people’s experiences using mental health and addiction (MHA) services has found many people felt they were treated with respect and things were well explained to them; but that their cultural and spiritual needs were not always met.
NEWS: 23 Jul 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 2–22 July 2020 is now available online.
NEWS: 22 Jul 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The report Choosing Wisely means Choosing Equity recommends a number of changes to make the Choosing Wisely campaign more effective for Māori.
PUBLICATION: 17 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The mental health and addiction quality improvement programme uses a range of recognised methodologies and tools working with teams to bring about improvement. The methodologies and tools are described in this resource.
NEWS: 16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Kerry Weir-Smith talks about how she found the mental health and addiction quality improvement facilitator course, the project she completed and how the overall experience has influenced her work.
NEWS: 16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Jenny MacFadgen talks about how she found the mental health and addiction quality improvement facilitator course, the project she completed and how the overall experience has influenced her work.
NEWS: 16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Daniel McClean talks about the mental health and addiction quality improvement facilitator course, the project he completed and how the overall experience has influenced his work.
NEWS: 16 Jul 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Congratulations to the 18 participants who completed this year’s Health Quality & Safety Commission mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement facilitator course.
PUBLICATION: 7 Jul 2020, Primary Care
The Fono initiated a quality improvement project that used a community-based public health approach with the aim of reducing the rate of SSTI by 25 percent by November 2018 in the West Auckland Tuvaluan community.
NEWS: 11 Jun 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 21 May–10 June 2020 is now available online.
NEWS: 5 Jun 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The Conversation Café meets monthly, via video conference, to discuss the challenges of living with mental health and addiction (MHA) issues as well as MHA service developments planned to address some of the challenges people are facing.
PUBLICATION: 28 May 2020, Primary Care
As part of a Whakakotahi improvement project, an integrated health team in Nelson Marlborough worked on how to make it easier for patients to take their life-saving medication in the year after having a cardiac stent.
NEWS: 27 May 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board is making great progress working toward eliminating seclusion.
NEWS: 27 May 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Approximately 60 participants representing 15 district health boards (DHBs) joined an online learning session for the Learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience project.
PUBLICATION: 26 May 2020, Primary Care
As part of a Whakakotahi improvement project, Unichem Russell Street, Hastings developed a quality improvement project to improve asthma management in a group of Māori and Pacific children.
NEWS: 15 May 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Teams participating in a project for the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme met for a learning session in February.