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Website: Health Quality and Safety Commission
Email: info@hqsc.govt.nz
Last Publication Date: 1 Sep 2014
The Health Quality & Safety Commission (HQSC) in conjunction with the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and three Wellington-based District Health Boards (DHBs), established a mini-collaborative to…
Last Publication Date: 1 Aug 2014
The HQSC is developing a NZ health literacy tool to assist patients better understand the information given by health professionals. A draft resource titled P.L.A.N. for…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jul 2014
The purpose of this evaluation is to review how the Proof of concept work stream performed against the key milestones and tasks, capture stakeholders’ experience of…
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: 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…
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
