Primary care improvement case study: Turanga Health: Tu Mahi project
PUBLICATION: 30 Mar 2021, Primary Care
A workplace wellness platform that transitions individuals with long-term conditions to whānau-centred care and responsibility in the whare.
PUBLICATION: 30 Mar 2021, Primary Care
A workplace wellness platform that transitions individuals with long-term conditions to whānau-centred care and responsibility in the whare.
NEWS: 11 Mar 2021, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 18 February–10 March 2021 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 18 Feb 2021, Primary Care
This 10-minute video is the presentation about Whakakotahi, the Commission’s primary care improvement programme, that was presented virtually for the IHI/BMJ International Forum, Copenhagen 2020.
PUBLICATION: 2 Feb 2021, Primary Care
The Tongan Health Society is working on an innovative approach to underpin best practice models for patients with diabetes who are on maximum oral hypoglycaemic medication to start insulin therapy when they are hesitant to do so.
PUBLICATION: 2 Feb 2021, Primary Care
Taumarunui Community Kokiri Trust (TCKT) is a kaupapa Māori health and social services provider. Read about its project to weekly education and support clinic through a Diabetes Support Group in a community setting.
NEWS: 28 Jan 2021, Primary Care
In September 2020, the Hutt Union and Community Health Service (HUCHS) launched Te Kete Hauora Patient Advisory Team Workbook which has proven to be an innovative and successful tool in gathering high quality feedback and engagement.
PUBLICATION: 17 Nov 2020, Primary Care
South City Health's free nurse-led clinic is improving management of eczema for children and improved quality of life for the whole family as well. A Whakakotahi project success story.
NEWS: 28 Oct 2020, Primary Care
Several Hawke’s Bay families have seen an improvement in the physical and emotional wellbeing of their young tamariki with eczema, thanks to a Whakakotahi quality improvement project.
NEWS: 15 Oct 2020
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 24 September–15 October 2020 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 8 Sep 2020, Primary Care
In its quality improvement project, Victory Square Pharmacy set out to address these inequities in opioid substitution treatment patients in Nelson.
NEWS: 4 Sep 2020, Primary Care
Patients in remote settlements of eastern Bay of Plenty now have better access to timely and accurate medicines, thanks to a quality improvement project undertaken by the Te Whānau-ā-Apanui Community Health Centre in Te Kaha.
NEWS: 4 Sep 2020, Primary Care
A Whānau Ora approach to encourage people with diabetes to take control of their own health is having success in the King Country.
NEWS: 4 Sep 2020, Primary Care
Addiction clients of Nelson’s Victory Square Pharmacy now have a better quality of life thanks to a project to improve their physical health.
NEWS: 3 Sep 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 13 August–2 September 2020 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 24 Aug 2020, Primary Care
Some of the people involved in Whakakotahi projects talk about their experience and how consumers are key partners in quality improvement.
NEWS: 13 Aug 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 23 July–12 August 2020 is now available online.
NEWS: 7 Aug 2020, Primary Care
A project to understand why Tongan diabetes patients were reluctant to begin insulin treatment has resulted in improved medication uptake, and many are now being treated for other, previously undiagnosed conditions, thanks to greater engagement.
NEWS: 31 Jul 2020, Primary Care
Whakakotahi is one of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s key initiatives in primary care. A final evaluation of Whakakotahi was completed by Synergia and builds on the annual interim reports completed in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
NEWS: 31 Jul 2020, Primary Care
Wanting better management of her baby daughter’s severe facial eczema was behind a Hamilton practice nurse creating a clinic that is delivering great results for the practice’s under five-year-olds suffering from the painful skin condition.
PUBLICATION: 2 Jul 2020, Primary Care
A project focused on improving outcomes for Buller Medical’s Māori and Pacific patients with diabetes.
PUBLICATION: 28 May 2020, Primary Care
As part of a Whakakotahi improvement project, an integrated health team in Nelson Marlborough worked on how to make it easier for patients to take their life-saving medication in the year after having a cardiac stent.
PUBLICATION: 26 May 2020, Primary Care
As part of a Whakakotahi improvement project, Unichem Russell Street, Hastings developed a quality improvement project to improve asthma management in a group of Māori and Pacific children.
NEWS: 17 Apr 2020, Primary Care
Congratulations to Nelson’s Victory Square Pharmacy. Its Whakakotahi quality improvement project to improve the physical health of people on opioid substitution treatment won the He Tangata/The People – team work with consumer engagement – award.