Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest, Issue 74 online now

In this issue

Quality and safety improvement

• Educating patients about ‘leaky legs’ leads to award
• Primary care patient experience survey videos
• Quality improvement in primary care – a conference presentation

Reducing harm

• DHBs get ready for Patient Safety Week 2017 (5–11 November)
• Medication safety A3 infographic now available
• 3-Nation approach to reducing harm from falls workshop presentations
• Medication safety expert Avril Lee wins award in Singapore
• Updated resources: Stay independent falls prevention toolkit for clinicians
• Patient experiences
• Research award for Hip Fracture Registry

Reporting and commentary

• Vacancies
• Back by popular demand – the Commission blog
• New Safe Surgery NZ reports
• Latest quality and safety marker data available (April–June 2017)
• Privacy assessment for the primary care patient experience survey
• New Surgical Site Infection Improvement programme reports
• Incidence, risk factors and perinatal outcomes for placenta accreta in Australia and New Zealand

Events

• Upcoming events calendar 2017
• Workshop: Exploring shared goals of care in acute hospital settings
• Medication without harm – how will New Zealand rise to The Challenge?
• Patient Safety Week 2017
• HDC conference – registrations close 3 November 2017
• Quality improvement scientific symposium 2017
• Mental health workshop with Lord Victor Adebowale – save the date
• Let's talk: Our communities, our health
• Keep up to date via Facebook
• Is your email address changing?

Related links

• Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 74, 28 September – 17 October 2017