Appropriate prescribing toolkit: Further reading, articles and resources of interest
PUBLICATION: 12 Sep 2019, Medication Safety
Further reading, articles and resources of interest, part of the Commission's appropriate prescribing toolkit.
PUBLICATION: 12 Sep 2019, Medication Safety
Further reading, articles and resources of interest, part of the Commission's appropriate prescribing toolkit.
EVENT: 10 Dec 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
'Getting better with evidence: Experiences of putting evidence into practice’ is a one-day conference where delegates can learn from experts about putting evidence into practice, and discuss the challenges currently being faced in health care.
NEWS: 10 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
A third national survey of district health board (DHB) surgical staff shows that in most instances people work together as a well-coordinated team.
NEWS: 17 Sep 2019, Patient Safety Week
World Patient Safety Day, 17 September 2019, is being marked for the first time across the globe today.
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.
PUBLICATION: 10 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
The 2019 surgical safety culture survey was undertaken by Mobius Research and Strategy, to assist in evaluation of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's Safe Surgery NZ programme. This report presents the results of the 2019 survey.
NEWS: 2 Sep 2019, Patient Safety Week
The focus of this year’s Patient Safety Week | Wiki Haumaru Tūroro (3–9 November) is understanding bias in health care.
NEWS: 2 Sep 2019, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Family Violence Death Review Committee (FVDRC) is calling for mental health and addiction services to act as allies for family violence victims.
PUBLICATION: 30 Aug 2019, Partners in Care
Results of the all-of-Commission consumer forum survey, from the forum held in May 2019.
NEWS: 29 Aug 2019, Patient Deterioration
The Health Quality & Safety Commission would like to congratulate Wairarapa, West Coast and Taranaki district health boards (DHBs) on implementing the national maternity early warning system (MEWS) hospital-wide in July and August.
PUBLICATION: 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.
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.
NEWS: 29 Aug 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Southern District Health Board recently joined other district health boards (DHBs) in formally introducing the Choosing Wisely approach. Choosing Wisely encourages consumers and health professionals to discuss whether a particular test, treatment...
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.
PUBLICATION: 27 Aug 2019, Health Quality Intelligence
This is the third annual update as required by the Ombudsman from the Ministry of Health and the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) on the sector’s progress towards increasing transparency of health data in New Zealand by June 2021.
NEWS: 27 Aug 2019, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
The provisional rates of suicide released yesterday continue to raise serious concerns for the Suicide Mortality Review Committee (SuMRC).
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).
NEWS: 23 Aug 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The New Zealand Choosing Wisely campaign is joining Consumer NZ and the Council of Medical Colleges in calling for a ban on the advertising of prescription medicines to consumers.
NEWS: 22 Aug 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
A Ngā Poutama survey of consumers of mental health and addiction (MHA) services, their family and whānau goes live on 1 September 2019.
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.
NEWS: 8 Aug 2019, Partners in Care
In May, Hospice New Zealand launched the Standards for Palliative Care (Fourth Edition) 2019 after an extensive consultation and review process involving all hospices services in New Zealand.
PUBLICATION: 8 Aug 2019, Partners in Care
Standards for palliative care (Fourth Edition) 2019 from Hospice New Zealand.
NEWS: 8 Aug 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 18 July to 7 August 2019 is now available online.