NEWS: 4 Jun 2020, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) congratulates Vicki Masson on her appointment as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020, for services to perinatal and maternal health.
NEWS: 27 May 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board is making great progress working toward eliminating seclusion.
NEWS: 27 May 2020, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
Approximately 60 participants representing 15 district health boards (DHBs) joined an online learning session for the Learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience project.
NEWS: 19 May 2020, Aged Residential Care
New Zealanders need to remove the stigma from aged care homes and fund them properly, write University of Auckland experts Michal Boyd, Merryn Gott, Jackie Robinson and Aileen Collier.
PUBLICATION: 14 May 2020, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Family Violence Death Review Committee held a webinar in partnership with the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse to present the findings of the FVRDC Sixth Report 'Men who use violence'.
PUBLICATION: 13 May 2020, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
A position statement from the Suicide Mortality Review Committee on the impacts of COVID-19.
NEWS: 12 May 2020, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Family Violence Death Review Committee (FVDRC) has welcomed the Government’s announcement of an extra $202 million to strengthen family and sexual violence services over the next four years, mainly delivered through the Ministry of Social Development.
NEWS: 30 Apr 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 9–29 April 2020 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 30 Apr 2020, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Family Violence Death Review Committee's Sixth report: Men who use violence | Te Pūrongo tuaono: Ngā tāne ka whakamahi i te whakarekereke.
NEWS: 15 Apr 2020, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) board is seeking one member with senior legal experience to join the Family Violence Death Review Committee.
NEWS: 31 Mar 2020, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Family Violence Death Review Committee is adding its voice to the calls to ensure flexible, responsive family violence services are provided during the COVID-19 crisis.
NEWS: 12 Mar 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 20 February to 11 March 2020 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 26 Mar 2020, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
This report asks why rangatahi, compared with non-Māori young people, have higher rates of death by suicide and what Aotearoa New Zealand is doing, and what else we could do, to prevent rangatahi from taking their lives by suicide.
NEWS: 20 Feb 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 30 January to 19 February 2020 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 11 Feb 2020, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
This report summarises the outcomes of a scoping project exploring the possibility of gathering and sharing ‘nuggets of gold’ – that is, stories from those with lived experience of suicide attempt.
NEWS: 30 Jan 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 6 to 29 January 2020 is now available online.
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.