Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre
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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Mortality: Historical summary 1948–2012
posted by WM Admin on 2015-06-30 14:35:51.535
These tables contain mortality data (numbers and age-standardised rates) by sex for certain causes of death for each year from…
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Statement of Intent 2015 to 2019 (Ministry of Health)
posted by WM Admin on 2015-06-30 14:51:40.717
The Ministry of Health’s Statement of Intent 2015–2019 identifies outcomes for the health system and the Ministry: New Zealanders live…
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Disability Support Services Strategic Plan 2014 to 2018
posted by WM Admin on 2015-06-03 11:29:45.751
The Ministry of Health’s Disability Support Services (DSS) group has developed a four-year Strategic Plan for 2014 to 2018. The…
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Toolkit - Smokefree cars
posted by WM Admin on 2015-06-09 21:39:48.582
This toolkit has been developed as a resource to support health promoters and community groups to advocate and promote smokefree…
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Lung cancer multidisciplinary meeting toolkit
posted by WM Admin on 2015-06-04 14:25:03.534
The National Lung Cancer Working Group developed this toolkit to help DHBs implement high quality multidisciplinary meetings (MDMs) specifically for…
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Documents
- Draft Integrated Performance and Incentive Framework (IPIF)
- Expert Advisory Group (EAG) Report on the Integrated Performance and Incentive Framework (IPIF)
- Smokefree EDS success at Waitemata DHB
- Rapid Rounds in action at Auckland District Health Board
- New Zealand Pain Management Knowledge and Skills Framework for Registered Nurses
Case Studies
- One Heart Many Lives
- Diabetes, Primary Care, & High-needs Communities: An integrated approach to diabetes care
- Innovative programmes deliver more community-based care in Canterbury
- Advance care planning: Co-designing an awareness campaign (NZ)
- “So, now you want me to do what?” - The ABC Journey with General Practice
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
- Health status of New Zealand European, Māori, and Pacific patients with diabetes in 242 New Zealand general practices
- Te Kapunga Putohe (The Restless Hands): A Maori Centred Nursing Practice Model
- A short report on integrated care initiatives in selected New Zealand Health Networks
International Literature
- The implementation of intentional rounding using participatory action research (Australia)
- Bedside handover: Faster and safer? (Australia)
- Qualities of exemplary nurse leaders: Perspectives of frontline nurses (Canada)
- IDF Diabetes Atlas: Global estimates of the prevalence of diabetes for 2011 and 2030
- Cochrane review: The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians
Events
- 42nd Annual Conference of the Perioperative Nurses College of NZNO (Palmerston North)
- NZNO Nurse Managers New Zealand Conference (Tauranga)
- Australasian Nurse Educators Conference 2015 (Auckland)
- 9th New Zealand Immunisation Conference and Pre-conference Workshop (Hamilton)
- World Congress on Active Ageing (Melbourne)
Links
- Critical Care & Resuscitation: The Journal of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (Australia)
- ABC Smoking Cessation Course - now available on LearnOnline website
- Te Kaunihera o Ngā Neehi Māori (National Council of Māori Nurses)
- Health Mentor Online (Diabetes)
- Ordering Ministry of Health resources
