Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest, Issue 64 online now

In this issue:

Quality and safety improvement

• Choosing Wisely symposium on next week

Reducing harm

• How-to guide: Reducing opioid-related harm through the use of care bundles
• Hand Hygiene NZ – findings from the 2016 survey
• Systematic review of a patient care bundle in reducing staphylococcal infections in cardiac and orthopaedic surgery
• Fight antibiotic resistance is focus of World Hand Hygiene Day 2017
• New community pharmacist appointed to medication safety expert advisory group

Reporting and commentary

• New report: clinical governance – guidance for health and disability providers

Events

• Upcoming events calendar 2017
• Choosing Wisely – implementation symposium
• Adverse events review workshop
• FallsStop – free seminar about falls reduction with Anne-Marie Hill
• Open Forum with Dr Karen Hitchcock: May you never grow old
• Open Forum: Atlas of Variation, maps to better care
• Perioperative Mortality Review Committee/Safe Surgery NZ 2017 workshop

Related links

• Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 64, 8–21 March 2017