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: 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.
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: 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, 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).
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.
PUBLICATION: 23 Jul 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
A review of what is known about medication safety within mental health.
NEWS: 4 Jul 2019, Primary Care
A Hastings community pharmacy’s project to improve asthma management in a group of Māori and Pacific children has left everyone breathing easier.
PUBLICATION: 25 Jun 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Copies of presentations from the second learning session for Zero seclusion: towards eliminating seclusion by 2020 held in December 2018.
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: 30 May 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) is seeking a forensic pathologist to join the Maternal Mortality Review Working Group (MMRWG).
NEWS: 29 May 2019, Primary Care
A project to improve the patient enrolment process at Whanganui’s Gonville Health and make it more patient-centred and culturally appropriate has achieved benefits beyond its intended aims.
NEWS: 24 May 2019, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
An interagency post-vention group in Te Tai Tokerau ki Muriwhenua has shown local solutions based on te ao Māori are critical for saving rangatahi lives.
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: 6 May 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) is seeking a new member to join its Maternal Mortality Review Working Group (MMRWG).
NEWS: 1 May 2019, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is seeking a lived-experience (consumer) member to join the Family Violence Death Review Committee.
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.
NEWS: 29 Apr 2019, Medication Safety
A review and update of the standard batch sheets for oral liquid formulations compounded in New Zealand (NZ standard oral formulations or NZSOF) has been completed.
NEWS: 17 Apr 2019, Primary Care
West Coast Primary Health Organisation (PHO) has partnered with Māori health and social services provider, Poutini Waiora, in a project to improve outcomes for targeted Buller Medical Māori and Pacific clients with diabetes.
NEWS: 4 Apr 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 15 March–4 April 2019 is now available online.
EVENT: 21 Aug 2019, Building Leadership & Capability
An Open Forum with Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, Cambridge, UK.
NEWS: 27 Mar 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee is making changes to its publication plans for 2019 and how the committee will undertake its work.