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17 Jan 2020
Te māwhenga tūroro | patient deterioration programme update
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s te māwhenga tūroro | patient deterioration programme is focusing on several key projects in 2020. Find out more in this update.
Patient deterioration
17 Jan 2020
Kōrero mai empowers couple to voice concerns
When Angela felt her voice wasn’t being heard during her husband Geoff’s stay in Wellington Regional Hospital, the Kōrero mai service supported her to escalate her concerns about his deteriorating health.
Patient deterioration
13 Jan 2020
Third learning session held for Connecting care: Improving service transitions | Te tūhono i ngā manaakitanga, te whakapai ake i ngā whakawhitinga ratonga
Connecting care is one of the five priority areas for the Commission’s national five-year mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme.
Mental health & addiction quality improvement
10 Jan 2020
Blog: Unhappy hospital holiday
Despite the horrors of the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, the Australian fires, disturbing world events and, on a more local front, reports of hospitals under pressure we carry on living our lives the best we can.
Partners in Care
10 Jan 2020
Improving safety in response to mental health and addiction adverse events
Learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience is one of the five priority areas for the Commission’s national five-year mental health and addiction quality improvement programme.
Mental health & addiction quality improvement
06 Jan 2020
New community medication chart makes prescriptions clearer
Hutt Valley DHB and Nelson Marlborough DHB, with support from the Health Quality & Safety Commission have produced a new medication chart for use by district nursing in the community.
Medicines (Reducing harm)
06 Jan 2020
Changes to maternal morbidity collection and reporting in New Zealand
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) will be providing direct oversight of the maternal morbidity collection and reporting, retrospective from 1 July 2019.
Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
19 Dec 2019
Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 109 online now
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 28 November to 18 December 2019 is now available online.
Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission
17 Dec 2019
Supporting the best surgical outcomes for Māori and their whānau
Surgical teams and clinicians are being called to address equity for Māori by the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
17 Dec 2019
Report finds equity gap in NZ surgical systems for Māori
The Perioperative Mortality Review Committee is calling on surgeons, anaesthetists and clinicians to address inequities in surgical services.
Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
17 Dec 2019
Registration is now open for the fourth national Choosing Wisely forum
Registration for the Choosing Wisely 2020 forum is now open. The forum, Choosing Wisely – Choosing Equity: a focus on equity, sustainability and shared decision-making is being held in Wellington on 1 May 2020.
Choosing Wisely Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission
16 Dec 2019
Congratulations to all the 2019 primary care quality improvement facilitator programme graduates
Congratulations to the 17 representatives who work in primary care throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and completed the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s primary care quality improvement facilitator (PC QIF) programme this year.
Primary care