Working with clinicians, providers, consumers and whānau to improve health and disability support services.

The way we think about safety in the health sector has changed over recent years. We are increasingly recognising the health care system is a complex system that constantly adapts to change.

Te Tāhū Hauora engages with the sector to improve the delivery of health care services though specific quality improvement programmes.

Our role is to reduce avoidable deaths in Aotearoa New Zealand. We do this by analysing death-related statistics, reports and information on specific groups of deaths, such as family violence or babies and children, to reveal underlying causes.

Investigating early interventions to save the lives of mothers and babies is one of the actions set to follow a report examining violence-related deaths of women and girls in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Mental Health and Addiction Quality Improvement Programme, which has been hosted by Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality and Safety Commission for the last 8 years, is transitioning back into Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ).

The June 2025 update from the Consumer health forum Aotearoa.

A feasibility study supports the use of a new early warning system to help staff working in aged residential care (ARC) recognise when a resident may be getting acutely unwell and respond early.

Read the March 2025 news from our infection prevention and control programme.