Actively listening for patient safety
PUBLICATION: 27 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
This video talks about the importance of actively listening for patient safety – ensuring all viewpoints are heard and that mistakes are avoided.
PUBLICATION: 27 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
This video talks about the importance of actively listening for patient safety – ensuring all viewpoints are heard and that mistakes are avoided.
NEWS: 10 Sep 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
A third national survey of district health board (DHB) surgical staff shows that in most instances people work together as a well-coordinated team.
NEWS: 28 Jun 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
Over 60 surgical teams across New Zealand participated in surgical briefing awareness day yesterday.
PUBLICATION: 20 Jun 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
Briefings take just five minutes and have a significant and positive impact on patient safety by improving communication and teamwork, reducing delays and identifying potential risks prior to surgery.
PUBLICATION: 19 Jun 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
Start-of-list briefings improve teamwork, camaraderie and efficiency. These case studies from Counties Manukau Health outline how making start-of-list briefings a standard part of the surgical list, was an easy choice.
PUBLICATION: 5 Jun 2019, Primary Care
This document, Towards quality improvement at scale in the New Zealand primary care setting, was commissioned to help us plan how to achieve quality improvement at scale in primary care.
NEWS: 5 Jun 2019, Primary Care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is pleased to share the findings from consumer, health service and stakeholder engagement, to inform the future direction and priorities in our primary care programme.
NEWS: 16 May 2019, Safe Surgery NZ
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is encouraging surgical teams in district health boards and private surgical hospitals throughout New Zealand to hold a start-of-list briefing on Thursday 27 June 2019.
NEWS: 18 Mar 2019
The Health Quality & Safety Commission would like to acknowledge the skill and dedication of health professionals in Canterbury and around the country who responded so swiftly, compassionately and professionally to the tragic events in Christchurch.
NEWS: 29 Jun 2018, Mental Health & Addiction Quality Improvement
A new national survey is being introduced that will take a unique look at factors affecting the quality and safety of New Zealand’s mental health and addiction (MHA) services.
NEWS: 22 Mar 2018, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 1–21 March 2018 is now available online.
EVENT: 15 Mar 2018, Safe Surgery NZ
This is your opportunity to join other surgical teams in your area to find out about the safe surgery programme's impact to date and share your experience of the teamwork and communication interventions.
PUBLICATION: 4 Oct 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
Safe Surgery NZ aims to make surgery safer by improving teamwork and communication in the operating theatre. The 2017 Surgical Safety Culture Survey demonstrates an improvement in the attitudes and perceptions of surgical team members across New Zealand.
PUBLICATION: 15 Aug 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
Video 8 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.
PUBLICATION: 15 Aug 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
Video 7 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.
PUBLICATION: 15 Aug 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
Video 6 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.
PUBLICATION: 15 Aug 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
Video 5 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.
PUBLICATION: 15 Aug 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
Video 4 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.
PUBLICATION: 15 Aug 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
Video 3 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.
PUBLICATION: 15 Aug 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
Video 2 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.
PUBLICATION: 15 Aug 2017, Safe Surgery NZ
Video 1 in the teamwork and communication roll-out.
NEWS: 24 Jul 2017, Building Leadership & Capability
The latest recipient of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Open for leadership award is Rachel Malone (Te Aitanga a Mahaki), a nurse in Hauora Tairāwhiti’s mental health inpatient unit, Te Whare Awhiora.
NEWS: 21 Apr 2017, Building Leadership & Capability
The latest recipient of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Open for leadership awards is Counties Manukau Health pharmacist Sanjoy Nand.
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.
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.