Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 81 online now

In this issue

Quality and safety improvement

• Kiwis encouraged to note death wishes in an advance care plan for family and medical staff

Reducing harm

• 'Live stronger for longer' theme of April Falls 2018 campaign
• Falls prevention in hospitals shows benefits as broken hips reduced
• Medicines management digital services infographic
• Blog: Whose fault is it anyway?
• Position statement on the use of slow-release opioid preparations
• Blog: Simulation training is the next step for safe surgery
• National event marks 'the beginning of the end' for seclusion
• Updated workbook: From Atlas to Action
• Falls 2018 evidence base
• Updated falls Topic 10 self-assessment
• Aged residential care (ARC) Medication Chart implementation and training guide
• Guide to preparing and implementing a pressure injury measurement programme

Reporting and commentary

• Falls Atlas updated with 2016 data
• Quality and safety marker results (October–December 2017)
• Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme national orthopaedic and cardiac surgery reports
• Commission vacancies

Events

• Upcoming events calendar 2018
• Workshops on quality improvement in aged residential care
• Putting prevention first: Leadership and action on preventing healthcare associated infections
• Waitemata DHB health literacy symposium
• Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee conference
• All Together Better Health IX conference
• BMJ International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
• 8th Biennial Australia and New Zealand Falls Prevention Conference

Related links

• Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 81, 22 March–11 April 2018