Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 86 online now

In this issue

Whakapai i te kounga me te haumaru | Quality and safety improvement

• Video: Turoa Haronga shares his personal experiences of health care
• Whakakotahi primary care quality improvement challenge
• Blog: The flipside to problems
• Undertaking child respiratory interventions in a community pharmacy

Whakaheke mōrearea | Reducing harm

• National hand hygiene compliance report
• Caution with the use of fentanyl patches
• New initiative to improve care transitions for mental health consumers
• Patient Safety Week update
• Evidence-scoping review – service transitions for mental health and addiction
• Reducing and eliminating seclusion in mental health inpatient services

Pūrongo me te whakamārama | Reporting and commentary

• Reshaping the rules at Hutt Valley DHB
• Reduction in 'just-in-case' IV cannula use delivers big benefits
• Commission vacancy

Ngā hui huhua | Events

• Upcoming events calendar 2018
• All Together Better Health IX conference
• BMJ International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare
• Adverse event review workshop
• Quality improvement scientific symposium
• 13th Biennial Asia Pacific International Mental Health and Addiction Conference
• 8th Biennial Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Conference
• Patient Deterioration New Zealand: Current state and future developments

Related links

• Health Quality & Safety Commission e-digest – Issue 86, 5–25 July 2018