Health Quality & Safety Commission e-update, Issue 51 online now

The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update for the period of 13 June–3 July 2016 is now available online.

In this issue:

• As the campaign closes, we remain 'open'
• Orders for patient safety week resources open
• Whakakotahi – primary care quality improvement challenge
• PMMRC report finds drop in maternal deaths and stillbirths
• Co-design programme evaluation and case studies
• Support for setting up a health consumer council
• Sponsorship for consumers to attend integrated care congress
• Data shows size of difference in health care treatment by ethnicity, socioeconomic status
• Bowel cancer focus of latest Atlas domain
• How good is our health system? Health quality and safety indicators updated
• Quality and safety marker data published for January–March 2016
• Experience-based co-design programme focused on surgical site infection
• Frontline ownership having a positive impact on hand hygiene compliance
• IPC quality improvement training underway
• Improvement Matters – Issue 3, June 2016
• SSI national orthopaedic report released (October–December 2015)
• Feedback welcomed on draft alteplase/tenectaplase alert
• Updated oxygen section on the national medication chart
• Safe use of opioids national collaborative ends – opioid safety work to continue
• Surgical teamwork and communication intervention roll-out
• Deteriorating patient emerging themes and evidence summary – final reports available.

Read issue 51 of the Commission e-update.