87 results in multiple government agencies
Last Publication Date: 1 Jul 2014
The Partners in Care programme was developed by the New Zealand Health Quality & Safety Commission (HQSC) to support healthcare organisations in delivering its aim to…
Last Publication Date: 7 May 2014
Social services are working more and more collaboratively to deliver services to New Zealanders. This occurs throughout the sector, from frontline NGOs delivering services on behalf…
Last Publication Date: 1 Mar 2014
Addressing variation in health services is one of the major challenges for clinicians and managers, both in New Zealand and internationally. Observing variation raises difficult questions…
Variation in medical practice has become a major topic of inquiry for health services researchers. Investigators have frequently documented variation in the way in which health…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jan 2014
Hand Hygiene New Zealand (HHNZ) has contracted with the Health Quality & Safety Commission since 2011 to improve hand hygiene in New Zealand hospitals. This rapid…
More than any other developed country, New Zealand's economy, people and environment depend on the success of land-based industries. The agriculture industry is at the core…
Last Publication Date: 1 Dec 2013
Suicide is an issue of major concern to New Zealand communities. Each year more than 500 people take their lives, more than the number of those…
Last Publication Date: 1 Nov 2013
Patient falls resulting in harm are one of the most frequently reported adverse events in hospitals. Of the 730 serious adverse events reported by district health…
Last Publication Date: 1 Oct 2013
Last Publication Date: 1 Sep 2013
In 2011, the Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) made a decision to separate district health board (DHB) mental health and addictions services serious adverse…
