PUBLICATION: 20 Feb 2020, Aged Residential Care
This infographic from the interRAI 2018/19 annual report shows that most people in ARC facilities have strong, supportive relationships with their family & find meaning in their daily life, despite many having clinically complex health conditions.
NEWS: 28 Nov 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 7 to 27 November 2019 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 15 Nov 2019, Aged Residential Care
Early in 2019, the aged residential care programme team identified four care homes in the Auckland region to carry out small-scale improvement projects over three months.
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.
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: 12 Sep 2019, Medication Safety
Further reading, articles and resources of interest, part of the Commission's appropriate prescribing toolkit.
NEWS: 18 Jul 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 28 June to 17 July 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 9 Jul 2019, Aged Residential Care
The Ministry of Health have developed an easy-to-use suite of resources to help people navigate the aged residential care complaints process.
NEWS: 3 May 2019, Aged Residential Care
A nurse practitioner’s dedication to building the profession in New Zealand was honoured with a special pounamu at the Nurse Practitioners New Zealand conference.
PUBLICATION: 24 Jul 2019, Aged Residential Care
A report and video, sharing a collection of personal stories about ‘what’s important’ to people and their families/whānau when entering aged residential care in Aotearoa New Zealand.
NEWS: 6 Jun 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 17 May to 6 June 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 16 May 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 25 April to 16 May 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 1 May 2019, Aged Residential Care
The Commission is pleased to be working with ACC who have funded a quality improvement (QI) facilitator programme.
NEWS: 30 Apr 2019, Health Quality Intelligence
New data shows 49 percent of those who visited their GP in 2017 were dispensed at least one antibiotic.The data is part of the new Atlas of Healthcare Variation on community use of antibiotics released by the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
PUBLICATION: 29 Apr 2019, Aged Residential Care
Update of a toolkit originally published in 2016 by our falls programme.
NEWS: 24 Apr 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 5–24 April 2019 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 9 Apr 2019, Medication Safety
Techniques for reviewing an event and implementing change and improvements.
NEWS: 21 Feb 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 1–21 February 2019 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 13 Dec 2018, Building Leadership & Capability
Presentations from the Health Quality & Safety Commission's 2018 Quality Improvement Scientific Symposium.
PUBLICATION: 8 Nov 2018, Aged Residential Care
This short video, also provided by the IHI, helps us to understand how we use the driver diagram concept as a tool to describe the system within which we undertake quality improvement activity.
PUBLICATION: 8 Nov 2018, Aged Residential Care
Watch Dr Robert Lloyd from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), show how to use a 'family of measures' to monitor the impact of your quality improvement work.
NEWS: 8 Nov 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 18 October–7 November 2018 is now available online.
NEWS: 1 Oct 2018, Advance Care Planning
Planning for her future care was the last thing on Wendy Betteridge’s mind, until a cardiac arrest 18 months ago forced her to change her thinking.
NEWS: 27 Sep 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 6–26 September 2018 is now available online.
NEWS: 16 Aug 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 26 July–15 August 2018 is now available online.