Publications-Quality Improvement and innovation

Quality Improvement & Innovation
Publications

2003

Improving Quality (IQ): A systems approach for the New Zealand Health and Disability Sector
This document gives further focus to the importance of quality. It is a commitment to supporting continuous quality improvement by each person who works within the system, by the people cared for and supported by the system, and by the system itself.

Self Assessment Tool
This tool has been developed to assist clinicians and managers to monitor the implementation of credentialling systems, within District Health Boards, against the national framework described in Toward Clinical Excellence: A Framework for the Credentialling of Senior Medical Officers in New Zealand. (Ministry of Health 2001).

2002

Clinical Leadership and Quality in Primary Care Organisations in New Zealand
This is the third of three reports on clinical leadership and quality commissioned by the Clinical Leaders Association of New Zealand (CLANZ). It reviews clinical leadership practices in selected primary care organisations. The views expressed in the reports are those of the Clinical Leaders Association of New Zealand and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Ministry of Health.

2001

Reportable Events: Guidelines
This document provides guidance on processes and systems for organisational reporting, managing and investigation of incidents, accidents and hazards in the health and disability sector.

Safe Systems Supporting Safe Care
The National Health Committee’s key task is to provide advice to the Minister of Health on the quality and mix of services that should be publicly funded.

2000

The New Zealand Health Strategy
The New Zealand Health Strategy provides the framework within which District Health Boards and other organisations across the health sector will operate. It highlights the priorities the Government considers to be most important.

Key International Publications

Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (2001)
Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America.

To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System (2000)
Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals.

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