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This template forms part of the patient deterioration preparation and implementation guide, and will assist teams with the development of a project charter.

This policy 'adult vital sign and early warning score measurement, recording and escalation', is provided as an example only and will need to be adapted to reflect expectations for local practice and processes.

This mapping exercise will help you to develop your own local escalation pathway for recognition and response to patient deterioration.

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.

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.

These three documents are parts one, two and three of a questionnaire about evaluating the tolerability and acceptability of alcohol-based hand rub among health care workers.

Hand Hygiene New Zealand ward structure survey document.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s aged residential care (ARC) programme is pleased to share a collection of personal stories about what’s important to people and their families/whānau when entering ARC in Aotearoa New Zealand.