Falls Prevention: New Zealand module – Releasing Time to Care (The Productive Ward)
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The falls prevention module for the Releasing Time to Care (The Productive Ward) toolkit has been customised for the New Zealand environment by the Commission.
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The falls prevention module for the Releasing Time to Care (The Productive Ward) toolkit has been customised for the New Zealand environment by the Commission.
NEWS: 25 Feb 2016, Reducing Harm from Falls
April Falls 2016 is one month away and we have lots planned, as will many of you. This year’s national theme will embrace ‘prevention right through to review and learning from falls events’.
NEWS: 9 Feb 2016, Reducing Harm from Falls
It won’t be long until this annual month-long event is upon us, and we have lots planned, as will many of you. This year’s national theme will embrace ‘prevention right through to review and learning from falls events’.
NEWS: 16 Dec 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
The December 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: 16 Dec 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
Issue 4 of Focus on Falls, a quarterly publication for everyone interested in understanding and preventing falls in older people.
NEWS: 7 Dec 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is pleased to share the results of the Royal College of Physicians’ national audit of inpatient falls: audit report 2015.
NEWS: 30 Oct 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
An important new health initiative is being launched which will help the over 4,000 New Zealanders who suffer from a hip fracture annually.
PUBLICATION: 14 Sep 2015, Open for better care
Issue 20 of the Open for better care e-newsletter is now available online.
NEWS: 26 Sep 2015, Falls
The Health Quality & Safety Commission would like to congratulate Faye Logan at Canterbury District Health Board, who has won the Commission's limerick competition.
NEWS: 5 Oct 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
Since a falls reduction project was undertaken in 2013, staff at Timaru Hospital’s Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation (AT&R) ward have celebrated over two years without a serious harm fall in the ward.
PUBLICATION: 22 Sep 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
Falls prevention programme components: how and why they work
NEWS: 22 Sep 2015, Falls
Out damned clutter! competition winners announced
NEWS: 15 Sep 2015, Open for better care
Issue 20 of the Open for better care e-newsletter is now available online.
NEWS: 14 Sep 2015, Falls
As a primary care practitioner I am delighted to see the expansion of the falls programme into the community.
NEWS: 7 Sep 2015, Falls
The Health Quality & Safety Commission, in association with bpacnz, has developed the Stay Independent Falls Prevention Toolkit for Clinicians and the Ask, assess, act pocketcard to aid primary care teams in assessment of an individual's risk of falling.
NEWS: 24 Aug 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
The Commission's Stay independent falls prevention toolkit for primary care clinicians is featured in the Best Practice Journal.
EVENT: 20 Oct 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
FallsStop is a seminar about reducing falls in the hospital setting, designed for hospital falls champions, nursing management, and physiotherapy, gerontology and aged care representatives.
NEWS: 7 Aug 2015, Falls
Write your own falls prevention-focused limerick and be in to win!
NEWS: 10 Jul 2015, Falls
To support the Health Quality & Safety Commission's Reducing Harm from Falls programme focus on and engagement with primary care, a falls prevention toolkit has been developed by in partnership with bpacnz.
NEWS: 10 Jul 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
To support the Health Quality & Safety Commission's Reducing Harm from Falls programme focus on and engagement with primary care, a falls prevention toolkit has been developed by in partnership with bpacnz
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Working closely with ACC the Reducing Harm from Falls programme is focusing on harm in community settings.
NEWS: 6 Jul 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
The July 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: 6 Jul 2015, Reducing Harm from Falls
Issue 3 of Focus on Falls, a quarterly publication for everyone interested in understanding and preventing falls in older people.