Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 82 online now

In this issue

Quality and safety improvement

• Commission seeking experienced clinical communication train-the-trainers
• Encouraging doctors to question key to Choosing Wisely success

Reducing harm

• Hand hygiene critical for reducing sepsis
• Roseann's story: A fall at home
• Analgesic use for chronic pain
• Blog: My year of falls learning
• Presentations from the Safe Surgery NZ regional workshops

Reporting and commentary

• National patient experience survey: results for patients treated in February 2018
• Children living in poorest areas three times more likely to die
• Welcome to Dr Clive Aspin and Dr Carlene McLean
• Evaluation of the primary care patient experience survey tool
• 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 82, 12 April–2 May 2018