News and Updates

2009

30 Nov: Serious and Sentinel Events Reported By District Health Boards - 2008/09
Sentinel and Serious Events Reported by District Health Boards in the 2008/09 year provides the third consolidated report about serious and sentinel events across New Zealand’s 21 District Health Boards.

16 Nov: QIC meeting minutes for 2009 now available

19 Apr: Summary of Reportable events in the Officer of the Director General of Mental Health Annual Report 2007

23 Feb: Serious and Sentinel Events Reported By District Health Boards - 2007/08

6 Jan: Optimising the Patient's Journey newsletter - Issue 2, Dec 2008

6 Jan: NZ Incident Management Safety Newsletter - Issue 4, Nov/Dec 2008

2008
22 Dec: QIC First report to the Minister of Health February 2007 to June 2008 now available

15 Dec: QIC meeting dates for 2009 now available

10 Nov: Safe Medications Management Programme - latest newsletter now available

10 Nov: National Quality Improvement Programme: Report to Ministry of Health Annual Report October 2008

8 Sep: National Quality Improvement Programme newsletter - Issue 1: Sep 2008

26 Sep: NZ Incident Management Safety Newsletter - Issue 3, September/October 2008

24 Sep: Safe Medications Management Programme - latest meeting minutes and newsletter now available

16 Sep: National Quality Improvement Programme - Project Scopes now available
The project scopes for the five projects/programmes below are now available to view:

15 July: Quality Improvement Forum 2008 – view footage

The Quality Improvement Forum on July 18th includes reports on the National Quality Improvement Programmes as well as a presentation from keynote speaker, Dr. Jonathon Gray (Director of Healthcare Improvement, Wales Centre for Health) titled How could New Zealand save 1000 lives?

Footage will be delayed by one hour .

You may require additional plug-ins to view the footage, an option to install the plug-in will appear on the menu to the left of the Powerpoint slides.

To request a CD copy of the footage email: qic@moh.govt.nz

20 Feb: Commentary On Sentinel & Serious Events Reported By District Health Boards - 2006/07

Sentinel and Serious Events Reported by District Health Boards in the 2006/07 year provides the first consolidated report about serious and sentinel events across New Zealand’s 21 District Health Boards. View report and data from DHBs .

2007

31 May: HISAC and QIC Medicines Safety Media Release

Giving patients the right medicine at the right time is crucial to their treatment. The Health Sector has been looking at ways to reduce the incidence of medicine errors. Under Budget 2007, $10.2 million has been provided for the development of a medicine barcoding system that would provide a tool for those administering medication. Read the full media release.

Nov: 2nd National Consumers' Summit: Strengthening Consumer Voice

26 November 2007, Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre, Auckland
The New Zealand Guidelines Group, the Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner and other collaborating partners of the initiative to strengthen consumer voice in New Zealand, invite health and disability consumer group representatives to attend the 2nd National Consumers' Summit. View the New Zealand Guidelines Group website for further details.

Mar: Building quality into our health system

This is the transcript of an address given by Hon Pete Hodgson where he makes some general observations on quality improvement, and the formation of the Quality Improvement Committee. It also covers patient flow and safety, which the minister views as a subset of the quality agenda and as a priority within that agenda.

Feb: New appointments to key quality committee

Health Minister Pete Hodgson has announced new members to the Quality Improvement Committee, (formerly Epiqual - the National Health Epidemiology and Quality Assurance Advisory Committee).

Page last updated: 30 November 2009