Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest, Issue 68 online now

In this issue (attached below):

Quality and safety improvement

• Quality and safety improvement
• Picton Opioid Prescription Agreement leader wins Open for leadership award
• New mental health and addiction quality improvement programme
• Latest updates to the Atlas of Healthcare Variation: Well Child/Tamariki Ora and maternity
• Inaugural Whakakotahi group learning event
• Factsheet on co-designing a patient, family and whānau escalation of care process
• Patients and clinicians: Governing together
• Primary care patient experience survey – methodology and procedures

Reporting and commentary

• A Window on the Quality of New Zealand's Health Care 2017 published
• Report focuses on interventions to improve the patient experience
• Latest POMRC report finds ‘unacceptable’ difference in death rates
• Call for applications and nominations for an anaesthetist to join the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
• Rate of babies dying shortly before or after birth lowest reported
• Family Violence Death Review Committee publishes new report: Fifth Report Data
• Latest special report from Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee published: More needs to be done to prevent SUDI
• Latest Open4Results published
• ALERT 17: Alteplase or tenecteplase?

Events

• Upcoming events calendar 2017
• International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
• Flag the date: Three-nation approach to reducing harm from falls
• APAC Forum
• Quality improvement scientific symposium 2017
• Reducing harm
• Participants sought for anti-staphylococcal bundle development

Related links

• Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 68, 25 May–22 June 2017