Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 121 online now

Ngā ihirangi | In this issue

Whakapai i te kounga te haumaru | Quality and safety improvement

• Case study: What I wish I'd known when I received my bowel/rectal cancer diagnosis
• Whānau Ora approach supporting diabetes self-management
• Quality improvement project improves medicines access for remote patients
• Primary care improvement case study: Improving access to health care among opioid substitution treatment clients in Nelson
• Primary care improvement case study: Diabetes improvement project in the Hutt Valley
• Webinar recording: Let's discuss pressure injuries
• Evaluation of Gout Stop and Owning my Gout programmes
• Update from the advance care planning programme – August 2020

Whakaheke mōrearea | Reducing harm

• Profile on Kerry Weir-Smith, 2019/20 mental health and addiction quality improvement facilitator course graduate
• New report lays foundation for project to reduce avoidable in-hospital deaths from critical bleeding
• Surgical site infection rate is higher following hip and knee arthroplasty when cefazolin is underdosed
• Updated pressure injury resources available

Pūrongo me te whakamārama | Reporting and commentary

• Fourth annual update on increasing transparency in Aotearoa New Zealand health care
• Brochure: Guide for trauma patients and whānau
• Surgical procedures Atlas updated

Ngā hui huhua | Events

• Ō tātou hiranga | What matters to us

Mahi ngātahi me mātou | Work with us

Related links

• Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 121, 3 – 23 September 2020