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The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand’s health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
Important note: This site is no longer being actively maintained and is presented here as an online archive. While it still contains a wealth of useful information, visitors who want to receive the latest health information should register to receive the fortnightly email Digest. This will link you directly to articles of interest in the key areas covered by this site. You can register for the Digest here.
The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand’s health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
Important note: This site is no longer being actively maintained and is presented here as an online archive. While it still contains a wealth of useful information, visitors who want to receive the latest health information should register to receive the fortnightly email Digest. This will link you directly to articles of interest in the key areas covered by this site. You can register for the Digest here.
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Recommended
Documents
Tools
- How to Transform Patient Care: Telehealth Summit 2011 (UK) presentations
- Aiming for Excellence - RNZCGP standard for New Zealand general practice, 2011-2014
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Indicators for the Well Child / Tamariki Ora Quality Improvement Framework: September 2014
- Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation and reduction
- Annual update of key results 2013/14: New Zealand Health Survey
- 2014 RNZCGP Workforce Survey
- Tobacco use 2012/13: New Zealand Health Survey
International Literature
- Chronic disease management programmes for adults with asthma (Cochrane review)
- Psychological interventions for parents of children and adolescents with chronic illness (Cochrane review)
- Interventions to increase the use of electronic health information by healthcare practitioners to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes (Cochrane review)
- Personalised care planning for adults with chronic or long-term health conditions (Cochrane Review)
- Facilitators and barriers of implementing the chronic care model in primary care: A systematic review
Popular
News
- Global monitoring framework on noncommunicable diseases agreed by WHO member states
- Trust offers undergraduate scholarship to fund 6th year med students’ trainee intern elective in innovative and challenging overseas situations
- Reducing the inequalities in Māori child deaths makes economic sense, economists say
- Health report: Chronic pain
- More resources for kidney disease patients
Documents
- Enabling integrated health care
- A critique of a WHO-commissioned report and associated article on electronic cigarettes
- Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population (UK)
- Evaluation of the first year of the Inner North West London Integrated Care Pilot (England)
- The New Zealand Carers’ Strategy Action Plan for 2014 to 2018
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Reorienting the New Zealand health care system to meet the challenge of long-term conditions in a fiscally constrained environment
- Youth’12 overview: The health and wellbeing of New Zealand secondary school students in 2012
- A short report on integrated care initiatives in selected New Zealand Health Networks
- Metro-Auckland Pacific population health profile
- Health and Independence Report 2013
International Literature
- Cochrane review: The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians
- International profiles of health care systems 2014, including New Zealand, published by the Commonwealth Fund
- Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2012 (OECD)
- Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses
- Social determinants of health – What doctors can do (British Medical Association)
