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This guidance document and supporting resources provide practical assistance to aged residential care facilities in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Michal Boyd presented a webinar on Thursday 21 May 2020, 'Caring for complex older people: tips, tricks and tales from the trenches', in association with Mobile Health.

Dr Janice Wilson talks with Dr Chris Walsh about the Commission's role in consumer engagement and the partners in care framework.

This paper by Dr Arthur Morris, Dr Sally Roberts, Nikki Grae and Dr Chris Frampton highlights increased rates of infection following hip and knee arthroplasty when cefazolin is underdosed.

This toolkit, produced by Iowa Health, the Picker Institute, Des Moines University and Health Literacy Iowa, is to help all health care providers learn to use teach-back—every time it is indicated—to support patients and families throughout the...

Ron Paterson is a former Health and Disability Commissioner. Ron and his family had an experience of great care when Ron's father, Ian, was taken to Middlemore Hospital after a major heart attack.

Lana Bartlett describes her family's experiences communicating with health care staff during her father's stay in hospital.

The Ministry of Health has reviewed and updated its recommendations to decrease the risk of food-related choking in babies and young children. The updated advice expands on previous Ministry advice and includes a list of foods considered to be of a h

You are not alone. There are more than 172,000 people living with some form of heart disease in New Zealand.

As cancer treatments improve more people are living with, through and beyond cancer. Support for these people and their whānau is important.