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Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 110 online now

Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission
01 April 2020

Ngā ihirangi | In this issue

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

  • Camp Unity connects families and whānau impacted by traumatic brain injury
  • Blog: Unhappy hospital holiday
  • Advance Care Planning Day – Friday 3 April 2020
  • Brochure and video: Making an advance care plan – information for you and your family
  • Patient Safety Week 2019 evaluation

Whakaheke mōrearea | Reducing harm

  • Te māwhenga tūroro | patient deterioration programme update
  • Improving safety in response to mental health and addiction adverse events
  • New community medication chart makes prescriptions clearer
  • Primary care co-design programme 2020/21: Is this for you?
  • Third learning session held for Connecting care: Improving service transitions | Te tūhono i ngā manaakitanga, te whakapai ake i ngā whakawhitinga ratonga

Pūrongo me te whakamārama | Reporting and commentary

  • Self-review report based on the Performance Improvement Framework | Pūrongorongo arotake whaiaro i whai i te Anga Whakapiki Whakaaturanga
  • Changes to maternal morbidity collection and reporting in New Zealand
  • Quality and safety markers – enabling equity monitoring: Privacy impact assessment report

Mahi ngātahi me mātou | Work with us

  • Calls for expressions of interest – trauma rehabilitation collaborative project – clinical lead position (closes 5pm, 31 January)
  • Calls for expressions of interest – accessibility charter scoping (closes 5pm, 31 January)
  • Project manager, mental health and addiction (closes 5pm, 7 February).

Ngā hui huhua | Events

  • Adverse event review workshop
  • Open Forum: Why is it so hard to be open? The pitfalls and promise of transparency in health care
  • Open Forum: Resilient health care – embracing the future
  • Registration now open: Choosing Wisely forum
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