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A clinical governance committee is needed to provide oversight and expert advice about the safety, effectiveness, and ongoing improvement of the recognition and response system.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission held a webinar on 27 July 2018 about modifications to the New Zealand early warning score (NZEWS).

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.

These flyers for patients are to promote the adult hospital patient experience survey in hospitals.

Interactive version of a vital signs chart which includes the New Zealand early warning score.

Courtenay Mihinui shares the story of her journey through the health system with her daughter Demar.

In this video, Dr Matthew Drake (clinical lead obstetric anaesthesia) presents a virtual grand round about the New Zealand national maternity early warning system (MEWS).

This brief video clip gives an overview of the surgical site infection improvement programme, and some background to the issue of surgical site infections in New Zealand.

The video below outlines the Surgical Site Infection Improvement Programme's approach to surveillance.

In this video Felicity shares her story of advocating for her mother’s wishes and values when her mother was dying.