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![Commission backs calls for better awareness on medication safety issues](/assets/Uploads/Takahe__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
06 Feb 2016
Commission backs calls for better awareness on medication safety issues
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is supporting calls for more attention to be given to unsafe vaccine packaging and labelling.
Medicines (Reducing harm)![Report shows significant reduction in stillbirths](/assets/Uploads/Takahe__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
23 Jun 2015
Report shows significant reduction in stillbirths
The rate of babies dying from 20 weeks of pregnancy to 28 days old (perinatal mortality rate) has fallen to the lowest number since reporting began in New Zealand in 2007.
Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee![Open Book reports share lessons learned from adverse events](/assets/Uploads/News-tile__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
26 Mar 2015
Open Book reports share lessons learned from adverse events
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Adverse Events Learning programme is working with providers to share lessons learned following review of adverse events.
Adverse events![Improving medication error reporting and learning in primary care](/assets/Uploads/Takahe__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
10 Nov 2014
Improving medication error reporting and learning in primary care
The Health Quality & Safety Commission and the New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre (NZPhvC) are encouraging wider reporting and learning from medication errors and near-miss events in primary care.
Medicines (Reducing harm)![Update on the safe use of opioids collaborative](/assets/Uploads/Takahe__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
05 Sep 2014
Update on the safe use of opioids collaborative
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s Medication Safety programme welcomes the members of the national safe use of opioids collaborative:
Medicines (Reducing harm)![Safety considerations for parents when purchasing second-hand infant sleep products](/assets/Uploads/Takahe__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
24 Aug 2014
Safety considerations for parents when purchasing second-hand infant sleep products
Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee![Legislative change supports further work on the New Zealand electronic Prescription Service](/assets/Uploads/Takahe__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
19 Aug 2014
Legislative change supports further work on the New Zealand electronic Prescription Service
New legislative changes will allow prescriptions for controlled drugs to be generated electronically instead of handwritten.
Medicines (Reducing harm)![Improving teamwork and communication to further the patient safety culture](/assets/Uploads/Takahe__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
25 Jun 2014
Improving teamwork and communication to further the patient safety culture
The Commission is continuing its focus on reducing patient harm during the perioperative period by encouraging improved teamwork and communication across the operating theatre team.
Safe Surgery NZ![Surgical Safety Checklist features on TV3](/assets/Uploads/Takahe__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
30 Apr 2014
Surgical Safety Checklist features on TV3
3News featured a story on its Firstline show about the importance of using the surgical safety checklist.
Safe Surgery NZ![Using trigger tools in primary care](/assets/Uploads/News-tile__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
28 Mar 2014
Using trigger tools in primary care
An article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal recently, shows that trigger tools are a useful way of measuring and tracking events that result in patient harm in primary care.
Adverse events![Fatigue and familiarity push up rural crash risks](/assets/Uploads/Takahe__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
27 Mar 2014
Fatigue and familiarity push up rural crash risks
Fatigue is one of the most significant risk factors in rural road deaths according to a recent analysis of crashes involving dairy farmers and their employees.
Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee![Medication reconciliation during transitions of care as a patient safety strategy](/assets/Uploads/Takahe__FillWzkwMCw1MDBd.png)
29 Jan 2014
Medication reconciliation during transitions of care as a patient safety strategy
This review from the Annals of Internal Medicine discusses the use of medication reconciliation as a patient safety tool to reduce the risk of medication errors when patient transfers occur in hospital.
Medicines (Reducing harm)