Safe Surgery update
NEWS: 13 Feb 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
The second Surgical Safety Culture Survey is underway, and news about planned co-design training and auditor training.
NEWS: 13 Feb 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
The second Surgical Safety Culture Survey is underway, and news about planned co-design training and auditor training.
NEWS: 20 Dec 2016, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Issue 59 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 20 Dec 2016, Building Leadership & Capability
The safe surgery programme aims to improve teamwork and communication in the operating room by leveraging the WHO surgical safety checklist as a teamwork and communication tool.
PUBLICATION: 25 Nov 2016, Safe Surgery NZ
This report outlines the results of the Safe Surgery NZ programme's intervention training project for the surgical safety checklist.
PUBLICATION: 25 Nov 2016, Safe Surgery NZ
This report outlines the success of the Safe Surgery NZ observational auditor training project.
PUBLICATION: 18 Nov 2016, Safe Surgery NZ
Presentations from the Health Quality & Safety Commission's workshops with Professor Cliff Hughes in November 2016.
NEWS: 26 Sep 2016
Issue 55 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 5 Sep 2016, Safe Surgery NZ
This case study details the work at Northland District Health Board to successfully introduce surgical safety interventions into their operating theatres.
NEWS: 26 Jul 2016
Issue 52 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
EVENT: 4 Oct 2016, Safe Surgery NZ
Safe Surgery NZ regional workshops with Professor Cliff Hughes – Leadership: is it power, authority or influence?
NEWS: 25 Jul 2016
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is accepting poster and rapid-fire presentation abstracts for the 2016 quality improvement scientific symposium. Abstract submissions close on 9 August and can be made on the Commission website.
NEWS: 21 Jul 2016
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is supporting MORSim (Multidisciplinary Operating Room Simulation) – a national training intervention programme for surgical teams.
PUBLICATION: 8 Jul 2016, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Presentations from the POMRC workshop: 'Multidisciplinary review – we are all in this together' held on 13 June 2016.
NEWS: 30 Jun 2016, Open for better care
The national patient safety campaign formally came to an end on 30 June 2016 but we all remain Open for better care!
PUBLICATION: 1 Jul 2016, Safe Surgery NZ
This document covers frequently asked questions for the Safe Surgery NZ programme including the surgical safety checklist, briefing, debriefing and collection of data for the safe surgery quality and safety marker.
NEWS: 14 Jun 2016, Open for better care
Issue 26 of the Open for better care e-newsletter is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 14 Jun 2016, Open for better care
Issue 26 of the Open for better care e-newsletter is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 28 Nov 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
This factsheet is provided to support district health board (DHB) surgical teams in their work to measure the impact of the teamwork and communication interventions and submit quality and safety marker (QSM) data to the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
NEWS: 24 May 2016
Issue 50 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
NEWS: 7 Apr 2016, Safe Surgery NZ
Roll-out of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s safe surgery interventions is progressing well. All district health boards (DHBs) in cohort one and two are in the implementation phase and DHBs in cohort three have one more month in the preparation ph