Presentations from a forum on the implementation of ‘A Quality Framework and Suite of Quality Measures for the Emergency Department Phase of Acute Patient Care in New Zealand’

The Ministry hosted the national ‘Performing better and measuring better performance’ emergency department forum on Monday 23 March 2015 in Wellington.

The focus of the day was how DHBs plan to/are implementing the recently published A Quality Framework and Suite of Quality Measures for the Emergency Department Phase of Acute Patient Care in New Zealand.

Presentations are provided below and included :

Session title : Implementation of A Quality Framework and Suite of Quality Measures: a stocktake
Presenter : Lynette Drew , Ministry of Health

Session title : Development of quality measures and data dictionary
Presenter : Peter Jones, Auckland DHB
See download list below for : Data dictionary report; Executive summary; ED Quality Framework Audit Template_ STEMI Reperfusion_v5; ED Quality Framework Audit Template_Analgesia_v5; ED Quality Framework Audit Template_Sepsis_v5.

Session title : Quality reporting using IOM framework
Presenter : Mike Shepperd, Starship ED, Auckland DHB

Session title : Quality in Rural Setting
Presenter : Gillian Twinem , Thames Hospital, Waikato DHB

Session title : Improving time to analgesia
Presenter : Vanessa Thornton, Counties Manukau DHB