NEWS: 18 Jun 2015, Falls
To support the Reducing Harm from Falls programme’s expanded focus and engagement with primary care, a falls prevention toolkit has been developed by in partnership with bpacnz.
NEWS: 18 Jun 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
Dr Paul Cooper is has recently been appointed clinical lead, primary care for the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Reducing Harm from Falls programme.
PUBLICATION: 3 Jun 2015, Falls
Out damned clutter! is a competition for aged residential care facilities, with a prize for the best before and after photo.
NEWS: 28 May 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
The answers for the 2015 April Falls quiz, and prize winners, are now available.
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Consultation on the clinical care standard for hip fracture care from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
NEWS: 27 May 2015, Falls
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has asked people to send in photographs of their April Falls display – the best of which will win its sender a box of chocolate fish to share with their April Falls team.
NEWS: 21 Apr 2015, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Issue 41 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
NEWS: 21 Apr 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
Over 200 health workers attended MidCentral District Health Board’s (DHB’s) falls prevention symposium at the Palmerston North Convention Centre, which was held as part of April Falls activities in the region.
NEWS: 20 Apr 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is urging people to send their photographs to Bridgette Connor so they can go on the Commission website.
PUBLICATION: 20 Apr 2015, Adverse Events
This edition of Open Book was written in collaboration with the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Reducing Harm from Falls programme, and sets out a series of practice changes made by providers to prevent patients from being harmed by falling.
NEWS: 17 Apr 2015, Falls
We are now working on the fifth Open for better care campaign topic – reducing harm from falls across care settings, with a stronger focus in the community and primary care.
NEWS: 10 Apr 2015, Falls
This article from bpacNZ outlines the reasons behind the Health Quality & Safety Commission's revisit of reducing harm from falls as the latest six-month focus of the Open for better care national patient safety campaign.
PUBLICATION: 1 Apr 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
April Falls 2015: quiz questions and resources document.
NEWS: 1 Apr 2015, Open for better care
Issue 16 of the Open for better care e-newsletter is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 1 Apr 2015, Open for better care
Issue 16 of the Open for better care e-newsletter is now available online.
MEDIA RELEASE: 1 Apr 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
The importance of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Open for better care national patient safety campaign focus on reducing harm from falls in older people is underlined by figures that show the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) accepting mor
NEWS: 1 Apr 2015, Falls
The importance of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Open for better care national patient safety campaign focus on reducing harm from falls in older people is underlined by figures that show the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) accepting mor
NEWS: 31 Mar 2015, Health Quality Intelligence
The success of nationwide efforts to prevent central line associated bacteraemia (CLAB) means it has made its last appearance as one of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s quality and safety markers (QSMs).
NEWS: 30 Mar 2015, Medication
The end of March marks the end of the Open for better care campaign’s focus on reducing harm from high-risk medicines.
NEWS: 26 Mar 2015, Falls
Register for our webinar looking at how the Commission’s Atlas of Healthcare Variation can be used to identify areas of wide variation and potential areas for quality improvement for falls prevention.
NEWS: 12 Mar 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
The March 2015 issue of Focus on Falls, a quarterly publication for everyone interested in understanding and preventing falls in older people, is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 12 Mar 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
Issue 2 of Focus on Falls, a quarterly publication for everyone interested in understanding and preventing falls in older people.
PUBLICATION: 11 Mar 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
Links and information for the national April Falls 2015 quiz.
NEWS: 5 Mar 2015, Falls
In April 2015 the Open for better care campaign revisits the reducing harm from falls topic.