News and Updates

2008

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

First National Quality Improvement Programme newsletter
Issue 1: Sep 2008 - NQIP newsletter

NZ Incident Management Safety - latest newsletter now available (26 Sep)
NZ Incident Management Safety Newsletter - Issue 3, September/October 2008

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

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

Quality Improvement Forum 2008 – view footage (15 July)
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

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

HISAC and QIC Medicines Safety Media Release (31 May)
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.

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.

Building quality into our health system (Mar)
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.

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

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