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24 Jul 2019
Patient Safety Week update – 24 July 2019
Planning for Patient Safety Week 2019 is well underway. Our main resource, training and education videos focusing on implicit bias in health care, are being filmed and feature a range of subject-matter experts.
Aotearoa Patient Safety Day
23 Jul 2019
New resource for progressing consumer engagement in primary care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission has launched a new resource to support primary care providers, alliances, and primary health care organisations (PHOs) to progress consumer engagement in primary care.
Partners in Care
22 Jul 2019
New guide supports people with disabilities through the United Nations complaints process
Consumer network member, Martine Abel-Williamson attended the launch of a new guide last month, which aims to help people with a disability navigate the process of making a complaint to the United Nations.
Partners in Care
19 Jul 2019
Blog: Rise in Māori suicide deaths intolerable – Suicide Mortality Review Committee
A new report from the Ministry of Health shows a steep rise since 2009 in death by suicide of Māori aged 25 to 44 years.
Suicide Mortality Review Committee Mortality Review Committees
19 Jul 2019
Nudges to improve patient experience
Using insights from behavioural science, the Health Quality & Safety Commission worked with Ogilvy and Nelson Marlborough, Northland and Waikato district health boards (DHBs) to develop ‘nudges’.
Partners in Care Patient experience
19 Jul 2019
National mental health and addiction clinical leaders’ workshop held in Wellington
The learning from adverse events and consumer, family and whānau experience project / Te ako mai i ngā pāmamaetanga me te wheako tāngata whaiora me te whānau held a workshop for mental health and addiction clinical leaders on Wednesday 26 June 2019.
Mental health & addiction quality improvement
19 Jul 2019
Building quality improvement capability in the mental health and addiction sector
The national mental health and addiction (MHA) quality improvement programme (QIP) is building quality improvement capability in the MHA sector by sponsoring and delivering a number of educational courses and workshops.
Mental health & addiction quality improvement
18 Jul 2019
Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 102 online now
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 28 June to 17 July 2019 is now available online.
Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission
09 Jul 2019
New resources to navigate the aged residential care complaints process
The Ministry of Health have developed an easy-to-use suite of resources to help people navigate the aged residential care complaints process.
Aged residential care
05 Jul 2019
Blog: Equity and quality improvement
Dr Clive Bensemann is the Counties Manukau Health Clinical Lead Integrated Care Mental Health & Addiction and leads the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s mental health and addiction quality improvement programme.
Mental health & addiction quality improvement