Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest, Issue 65 online now

In this issue:

Quality and safety improvement

• Kiwis urged to start talking about planning for end-of-life care

Reducing harm

• Safe Surgery NZ: Auditor training resources and evaluation interim report online
• Hospital infection rates now known following introduction of ICNet Software at Canterbury DHB
• April Falls 2017 update

Reporting and commentary

• Latest quality and safety marker data available (October–December 2016)
• Reporting of ambulance service adverse events commended
• Surgical Site Infection Improvement programme: Reports for July–September 2016 available

Events

• Upcoming events calendar 2017
• 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
• Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee annual conference: Timing is everything
• Perioperative Mortality Review Committee/Safe Surgery NZ 2017 workshop

Related links

• Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 65, 22 March–5 April 2017