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This is the second annual update as required by the Ombudsman from the Ministry of Health and the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) on the sector’s progress towards increasing transparency of health data in New Zealand by June 2021.

This report sets out major themes from the results of the adult hospital patient experience survey since its inception in 2014. It covers how responses have changed over that time, and the variation in responses between different groups.

Our six-monthly report on the harm prevented, and money saved, in areas the Health Quality & Safety Commission focuses on or raises awareness about.

Our six-monthly report on the harm prevented, and money saved, in areas the Health Quality & Safety Commission focuses on or raises awareness about.

This report addresses the impact that the survey and reporting may have on individual privacy, and outlines steps to assess and minimise potential areas of risk along with compliance with the information privacy principles.

This is the fourth annual update as required by the Ombudsman from the Ministry of Health and the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) on the sector’s progress towards increasing transparency of health data in New Zealand by June 2021.

The national quality and safety marker report moved to a dashboard format in December 2020. This guide has been created to help people use and understand the QSM dashboard and its features.

This privacy impact assessment aims to help us better monitor health equity as a key aspect of quality.

Two documents describing the process followed by the Commission to identify key concepts and develop questions to measure patient experience of culturally safe care in the New Zealand patient experience surveys.

This document describes the process the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) and its contracted provider, Ipsos, undertook in 2019/20 to review and refresh the New Zealand patient experience survey programme.