Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 127 online now

Ngā ihirangi | In this issue

Whakapai i te kounga te haumaru | Quality and safety improvement

• Commission farewells outgoing consumer advocate
• Australasian Institute of Clinical Governance NZ facilitator faculty expression of interest – deadline extended

Whakaheke mōrearea | Reducing harm

• An example of effective consumer engagement by HUCHS
• New anti-staphylococcal bundle aims to reduce surgical site infections in New Zealand hospitals
• Orthopaedic data collection made simpler
• Primary care improvement case study: Tongan Health Society: Improving medicine access in primary care for Pacific peoples
• Primary care improvement case study: Taumarunui Community Kokiri Trust: He Mate Huka Oranga – a project to keep well with diabetes
• National medication chart toolkit, user guide and medication charting standard (updated February 2021)

Pūrongo me te whakamārama | Reporting and commentary

• Urgent action needed to address ongoing inequity in maternity sector

Mahi ngātahi me mātou | Work with us

• Neonatal nurse practitioner to join the Neonatal Encephalopathy Working Group (NEWG)
• Level 2 paediatrician to join the NEWG
• Obstetric physician to join the Maternal Mortality Review Working Group.

Ngā hui huhua | Events

• Quality improvement scientific symposium virtual sessions
• PMMRC webinar: Doing things differently
• Open Forum: Resilient health care – embracing the future
• Consumer Health Forum Summit 2021: Shifting Gears
• Adverse event review workshops
• AICG patient safety and quality care symposium
• International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare

Related links

• Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 127, 28 January–17 February 2021