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Website: Health Quality and Safety Commission
Email: info@hqsc.govt.nz
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…
Last Publication Date: 1 Aug 2013
Poisoning has been defined as injury to, and destruction of, bodily cells through the ingestion, inhalation, injection or absorption of toxic substances (World Health Organization 2008).…
Background Health literacy is defined by the Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC) as: "The degree to which individuals can obtain, process and understand health information…
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s national programme, Reducing Harm from Falls, has an initial emphasis on preventing falls and reducing fall-related injuries in public hospitals.…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jul 2013
A significant piece of work was concluded in 2013 which focussed on measurement and evaluation across the medication safety programme, with an emphasis on the electronic…
Last Publication Date: 1 Jun 2013
This project supports delivering better quality health care for all New Zealanders. It aims to achieve this by initiating the work required to measure and report…
Last Publication Date: 1 Mar 2013
This literature review was prepared by Workbase for the Health Quality & Safety Commission. It provides guidance for the development of the training tools and resources…
Suffocation, foreign body inhalation and strangulation are well-recognised causes of death in the paediatric age group. Data from the United States and United Kingdom show a…
Last Publication Date: 1 Dec 2012
The Health Quality & Safety Commission is required under legislation to develop and publish regularly a set of indicators to drive improvement of the quality and…
This report contributes to the Reducing Harm from Falls national programme of the Health Quality & Safety Commission. The aim is to present the evidence for…
