NEWS: 19 Dec 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 28 November to 18 December 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 6 Jan 2020, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) will be providing direct oversight of the maternal morbidity collection and reporting, retrospective from 1 July 2019.
PUBLICATION: 19 Dec 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
In 2019, the Health Quality & Safety Commission completed a self-review, based on the State Services Commission’s Performance Improvement Framework.
NEWS: 17 Dec 2019, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Surgical teams and clinicians are being called to address equity for Māori by the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
NEWS: 17 Dec 2019, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The Perioperative Mortality Review Committee is calling on surgeons, anaesthetists and clinicians to address inequities in surgical services.
NEWS: 13 Dec 2019, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Te Tiriti-led quality improvement across the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s mortality review programme was the focus for the two-day annual workshop of the Child Youth Mortality Review Committee (CYMRC), held recently in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
PUBLICATION: 4 Dec 2019, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
Submission to Committee Secretariat, Finance and Expenditure Committee, from the Suicide Mortality Review Committee on the Arms Legislation Bill.
PUBLICATION: 4 Dec 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The Māori responsive rubric and guidelines are a tool to assist the Commission's mortality review committees with the interpretation, and reporting of, Māori mortality.
NEWS: 26 Nov 2019, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Vicki Dent, acting quality manager, Specialist Mental Health Services at Canterbury District Health Board, explains what she hopes to achieve in her role working in quality improvement.
PUBLICATION: 17 Dec 2019, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The eighth Perioperative Mortality Review Committee report presents data and information on perioperative mortality in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2012 and 2017. In particular, it focuses on mortality following emergency laparotomy outcomes for Māori.
NEWS: 13 Nov 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) is seeking a new member to join its Neonatal Encephalopathy Working Group
NEWS: 7 Nov 2019, Medication Safety
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is reviewing the current Tall Man lettering list and encourages health professionals to submit names of confusing medicine pairs not already on the list, by Friday 15 November 2019.
NEWS: 31 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 10 to 30 October 2019 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 25 Oct 2019, Family Violence Death Review Committee
Members of the Family Violence Death Review Committee were co-authors on a recent paper published in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.
NEWS: 16 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Dr Paul Dalley presented on the comprehensive high-risk surgical patient pathway (CHRISP) being trialed at Capital & Coast DHB at the Choosing Wisely forum in May 2019.
NEWS: 11 Oct 2019, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
The Board of the Health Quality & Safety Commission is seeking a new member to join the Suicide Mortality Review Committee, to fill a vacancy to arise in December 2019.
NEWS: 4 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is pleased to welcome a new board chair and five new board members.
NEWS: 9 Oct 2019, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
The Suicide Mortality Review Committee says health and social policy should not ignore Asian mental health.
NEWS: 1 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Changes to the way lymphoedema patients are reassessed for new compression garments at North Shore Hospital’s outpatient physiotherapy lymphoedema service have reduced waiting times by a third.
PUBLICATION: 9 Oct 2019, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
This report focuses on the impact of suicide on the Asian population of Aotearoa New Zealand. In reviewing death by suicide affecting Asian people, the Suicide Mortality Review Committee aims to reinforce previous work and highlight areas requiring action
PUBLICATION: 23 Sep 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The third annual report from the Maternal Morbidity Working Group covering the period of 1 September 2017 to 31 August 2018.
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: 23 Sep 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The rate of stillbirths is reducing for Māori and NZ European mothers, a report by the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) has found.
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
Tools to guide which medicines should be considered for deprescribing, part of the Commission's appropriate prescribing toolkit.