Health Quality & Safety Commission e-update, Issue 59 online now

The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update for the period of 28 November–18 December 2016 is now available online.

In this issue:

• Season's greetings from the Health Quality & Safety Commission
• Patient Safety Week 2016 evaluation
• Choosing Wisely campaign launched in New Zealand
• First national advance care planning forum held in Auckland
• December 2016 Let's Talk Triggers out now
• Safe use of opioids national collaborative – final evaluation available
• Safe use of opioids national collaborative showcased at international conference
• World Health Organization global patient safety challenge – medication safety
• International Medication Safety Network encourages regulators and companies to improve medication safety on a global level
• First safe surgery quality and safety marker results published
• Presentations and videos from workshops with Prof Cliff Hughes
• National hand hygiene compliance report available (July–October 2016)
• Focus on hand hygiene reduces norovirus outbreaks
• Decline in falls and broken hips a success story for New Zealand health care
• Clinical care standard for hip fracture care developed
• Halving broken hips in public hospitals – the Aotearoa New Zealand experience
• Diabetes Atlas domain updated with 2015 data
• Call for applications and nominations for the Neonatal Encephalopathy Working Group
• Call for applications and nominations for an obstetrician for the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee
• Call for applications and nominations for a surgeon to join the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
• Collective action needed to further reduce sudden infant deaths
• Pressure injury guidance document out for sector feedback.

Read issue 59 of the Commission e-update.