NEWS: 24 Nov 2016, Reducing Harm from Falls
The Health Quality & Safety Commission will have results of its reducing harm from falls programme published in the New Zealand Medical Journal on 2 December 2016.
PUBLICATION: 18 Nov 2016, Safe Surgery NZ
Presentations from the Health Quality & Safety Commission's workshops with Professor Cliff Hughes in November 2016.
MEDIA RELEASE: 16 Nov 2016, Infection Prevention & Control
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is supporting an international campaign on careful use of antibiotics during World Antibiotic Awareness Week.
NEWS: 3 Nov 2016
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has congratulated this year’s Clinicians Challenge winners for their innovative IT solutions to improve health care.
MEDIA RELEASE: 17 Oct 2016, Infection Prevention & Control
The Health Quality & Safety Commission says the New Zealand health sector has made significant improvements in patient safety as International Infection Prevention Week begins.
NEWS: 26 Sep 2016
Issue 55 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
NEWS: 22 Sep 2016, Infection Prevention & Control
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has decided to stop reporting skin antisepsis preparation as a quality and safety marker (QSM) for orthopaedic surgery. Reporting on skin antisepsis preparation will continue for cardiac surgery.
MEDIA RELEASE: 13 Sep 2016, Reducing Harm from Falls
A new Australian clinical care standard is being supported by the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission).
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: 10 Aug 2016
Dr Heather Robertson has always been passionate about advance care planning (ACP) – the process of thinking about, talking about and planning for future health care and end of life care.
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: 20 Feb 2018, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission wishes to appoint an anaesthetist representative to the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
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.
MEDIA RELEASE: 30 Jun 2016, Health Quality Intelligence
The latest Atlas of Healthcare Variation has been released today, focusing on bowel cancer.
PUBLICATION: 22 Jun 2016, Infection Prevention & Control
Issue 3 of SSI Improvement Matters – a newsletter from the national Surgical Site Infection Improvement programme.
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.
PUBLICATION: 9 Jun 2016, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Fifth annual report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
MEDIA RELEASE: 9 Jun 2016, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The latest report from the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (POMRC) has found that there is a slightly greater likelihood that people will die following surgery, if that surgery is carried out in the weekend.
NEWS: 24 May 2016
Issue 50 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
NEWS: 5 May 2016, Infection Prevention & Control
'Safe surgical care saves lives' is the theme of this year’s World Hand Hygiene Day on 5 May, coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
NEWS: 2 May 2016, Medication Safety
Counties Manukau Health and Northland are among district health boards (DHBs) leading the way in the roll out of electronic medicine reconciliation (eMedRec).