Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 105 online now

Ngā ihirangi | In this issue

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

• Alwena and Jim's story
• Smoke-free Phillipstown – Pharmacy @ Phillipstown
• Commission’s work shared widely at general practice conference
• Results of the all-of-Commission consumer forum survey

Whakaheke mōrearea | Reducing harm

• Patient Safety Week | Wiki Haumaru Tūroro update: 2 September 2019
• Ngā poutama 2019: Survey of mental health and addiction consumers, family and whānau experience
• New frailty care guides to empower nurses and reduce variation for patients
• Blog: Using a restorative approach to respond to adverse events
• Implementation of maternity early warning system underway
• NZ surgical safety culture continues to improve
• Blog: Checklists for safe surgery in New Zealand
• WHO launches new World Patient Safety Day

Pūrongo me te whakamārama | Reporting and commentary

• MHA services must address family violence responsiveness
• Southern DHB joins Choosing Wisely campaign
• Call for nominations for the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee 

Ngā hui huhua | Events

• International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
• Healthcare Human Factors Symposium and Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of New Zealand conference
• Design for Health Symposium 2019
• Seminars with Professor Karim Brohi, London Major Trauma System
• Quality improvement scientific symposium 2019
• Mataora: Encounters between medicine and the arts
• Open Forum with Helen Bevan
• Getting better with evidence: Experiences of putting evidence into practice

Related links

• Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 105, 29 August–18 September 2019