EVENT: 10 Mar 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
An Open Forum featuring Mr Samer Nashef, cardiac surgeon, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK and Dr Stephen Duckett, director of the health programme, Grattan Institute, Victoria, Australia.
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: 24 Oct 2019, Patient Deterioration
The Commission is surveying clinical staff working in adult inpatient wards, including maternity, about their experiences and perceptions of caring for deteriorating patients and using recognition and response systems.
PUBLICATION: 22 Oct 2019, Building Leadership & Capability
Presentations from the Health Quality & Safety Commission's 2019 Quality Improvement Scientific Symposium.
NEWS: 11 Oct 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme organised several activities to acknowledge and celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week 2019 (23–29 September).
NEWS: 10 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 19 September to 9 October 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 8 Oct 2019, Primary Care
Representatives from the Health Quality & Safety Commission profiled a range of our primary care-related work at the Practice Managers and Administrators Association of New Zealand (PMAANZ) conference in September.
NEWS: 8 Oct 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Leigh Murray works for Auckland District Health Board (DHB) mental health services as a family advisor. Leigh recently presented at the Commission's MHA programme's learning session in August.
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.
NEWS: 1 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Changes to the way lymphoedema patients are reassessed for new compression garments at North Shore Hospital’s outpatient physiotherapy lymphoedema service have reduced waiting times by a third.
NEWS: 1 Oct 2019, Aged Residential Care
In around thirty years time it’s expected there will be more older people than children – for the first time in history.
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.
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.
PUBLICATION: 23 Sep 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The third annual report from the Maternal Morbidity Working Group covering the period of 1 September 2017 to 31 August 2018.
NEWS: 19 Sep 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 29 August to 18 September 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 23 Sep 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The rate of stillbirths is reducing for Māori and NZ European mothers, a report by the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) has found.
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.
PUBLICATION: 16 Sep 2019, Primary Care
Co-creating quality improvement in primary care presentation, given at the Practice Managers and Administrators Association of New Zealand conference.
PUBLICATION: 12 Sep 2019, Medication Safety
Further reading, articles and resources of interest, part of the Commission's appropriate prescribing toolkit.
NEWS: 3 Sep 2019, Primary Care
Representatives from the Health Quality & Safety Commission profiled a wide range of our primary care-related work at the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioner’s conference in July.
PUBLICATION: 3 Sep 2019, Primary Care
Presentations from Commission representatives and sponsored attendees, at the 2019 Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners conference.
NEWS: 29 Aug 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 8 to 28 August 2019 is now available online.
EVENT: 18 Nov 2019, Building Leadership & Capability
Save the date! Helen Bevan, chief transformation officer at NHS Horizons, returns to Wellington on 18 November 2019.
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.
NEWS: 23 Aug 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission Board is seeking a new member to join the Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC).