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Primary care improvement case study: South City Health: Managing child eczema
South City Health's free nurse-led clinic is improving management of eczema for children and improved quality of life for the whole family as well. A Whakakotahi project success story.
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Commission attends practice managers conference
Representatives from the Health Quality & Safety Commission profiled a range of our primary care-related work at the Practice Managers and Administrators Association of New Zealand (PMAANZ) conference in September.
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Primary care improvement case study: Tongan Health Society: Improving medicine access in primary care for Pacific peoples
The Tongan Health Society is working on an innovative approach to underpin best practice models for patients with diabetes who are on maximum oral hypoglycaemic medication to start insulin therapy when they are hesitant to do so.
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Primary care improvement case study: The Fono ‘Happy Skin’ project: Skin and soft tissue infections in the Tuvaluan community
The Fono initiated a quality improvement project that used a community-based public health approach with the aim of reducing the rate of SSTI by 25 percent by November 2018 in the West Auckland Tuvaluan community.
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Tackling diabetes in the Hutt Valley
Primary health organisation Te Awakairangi Health Network and HUCHS received support from the Commission to undertake a diabetes improvement project. It is one of the three successful initiatives supported by the Commission’s Whakakotahi programme.
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A day in the life of the Toiora exercise class
Many elements combined make the Toiora exercise class for people with diabetes an excellent example of the Whakakotahi primary care improvement challenge in action.
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A vision for quality improvement in primary care
Dr John Wellingham , chair of the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s primary care expert advisory group, shares his vision for quality improvement in primary care.
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Blog: There is no 'I' in team
TEAM is an acronym for together everyone achieves more. To accomplish anything, the group or team needs a shared problem or a goal to work towards, and all the necessary...
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Blog: Tools to remove barriers to quality improvement in primary care
Quality improvement (QI) is the use of systematic tools and methods to improve health care outcomes and experiences of care.
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Primary care improvement case study: Childhood respiratory warrant of fitness: Unichem Russell Street, Hastings
As part of a Whakakotahi improvement project, Unichem Russell Street, Hastings developed a quality improvement project to improve asthma management in a group of Māori and Pacific children.