Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 103 online now

Ngā ihirangi | In this issue

Whakapai i te kounga me te haumaru | Quality and safety improvement

• Progressing consumer engagement in primary care | Te whakakoke i te whai wāhi a te kiritaki ki te tiaki hauora tuatahi
• Tuvaluan community drives message to improve skin infection rates
• We've got your back

Whakaheke mōrearea | Reducing harm

• Medication safety, prescribing and the medicines management process in mental health
• Patient Safety Week update – 24 July 2019
• Nau mai, haere mai ki tōku kainga hou | Welcome to my home
• Discussion paper on data collection for orthopaedic and other procedures
• Building quality improvement capability in the mental health and addiction sector
• National MHA clinical leaders’ workshop held in Wellington
• Blog: Zero seclusion and my project sponsor role

Pūrongo me te whakamārama | Reporting and commentary

• Report calls for action on inequities in New Zealand’s health system
• New data shows cost as the main barrier to accessing health services
• Rise in Māori suicide deaths intolerable – Suicide Mortality Review Committee
• National patient experience survey: Results for patients treated in May 2019

Ngā hui huhua | Events

• Is the quality and safety agenda stalling?
• International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
• Healthcare Human Factors Symposium and Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of New Zealand conference
• Seminars with Professor Karim Brohi, London Major Trauma System
• Save the date: Quality Improvement Scientific Symposium 2019 

Related links

• Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 103, 18 July–7 August 2019