Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest, Issue 69 online now

In this issue (attached below):

Quality and safety improvement

• Calling for abstracts for the quality improvement scientific symposium
• Whakakotahi 2018 – primary care quality improvement challenge
• Whakakotahi profiled by bpacnz
• Feedback on the Commission’s quality improvement programmes
• 2016–17 Partners in Care programme case studies published
• Two more recipients of the Open for leadership award

Reducing harm

• Patient Safety Week update
• Updated recommended resources to help reduce harm from falls
• Anne-Marie Hill's FallsStop workshop videos
• Alert: Transdermal patches and burns
• Alert: Injectable phenytoin incidents – risk of death and severe harm
• Pressure injury prevention and management

Reporting and commentary

• Commission's Statement of Intent and Statement of Performance Expectations
• Adverse event reporting documents
• Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme (SSIIP) documents
• First annual update on increasing transparency in New Zealand's health care

Events

• Upcoming events calendar 2017
• Masterclass with Professor Erik Hollnagel
• Adverse event review workshops
• International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
• Flag the date: Three-nation approach to reducing harm from falls
• Hand Hygiene New Zealand – half-day hand hygiene workshop
• World Health Organization Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety
• Quality improvement scientific symposium 2017
• Presentations from the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee annual conference: Timing is everything

Related links

• Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 69, 23 June–11 July 2017