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
What's on top
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…
Other highlighted items
Featured / Show Recommended
Document
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…
Document
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…
Tool
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…
Tool
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…
Latest / Show Popular
Documents
- 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’
- Emergency Department Non Cardiac Chest Pain patient discharge information sheet
- Chest Pain Pathways in use around New Zealand
- Christchurch hospital flowchart for managing chest pain presentations to the ED - latest version Oct 2015
- Knowledge and Skills Framework for Cancer Nursing 2014
Tools
- Prevention is better than cure: Five tips for keeping older people healthy and out of hospital during winter (bpac)
- Sorting things out: Preventing or resolving problems, and making complaints
- Personal Space: Support workers in your home
- Starting off right: Setting up a good relationship with your support workers
- P2P Series - case studies of hospitals in the U.S. improving environments to better support the health of their employees (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Case Studies
- Standardising the organisation of clinical equipment on surgical wards at North Bristol NHS Trust: A quality improvement initiative
- Enhanced recovery clinical education programme improves quality of post-operative care (England)
- Improving critical care discharge summaries: A collaborative quality improvement project using PDSA (UK)
- Briefings and debriefings in one surgeon's practice
- Use of nurse-led telephone follow-up as a sole method of assessing patients after nasal surgery (England)
NZ Literature Abstracts
- Gender differences in satisfaction ratings for nicotine electronic cigarettes by first-time users
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the Hutt Valley, Capital & Coast and the Wairarapa DHBs
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the Midland region
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the northern district health boards
- 20,000 Days and Beyond: Evaluation of CMDHB’s quality improvement campaigns
International Literature
- “Nothing about me without me”: An interpretative review of patient accessible electronic health records
- Community representation in hospital decision making: A literature review (Australia)
- Achieving greater consistency in telehealth project evaluations to improve organisational learning
- Evaluation of the effect of nurse education on patient-reported foot checks and foot care behaviour of people with diabetes receiving haemodialysis (UK)
- Healthcare interventions to promote and assist tobacco cessation: A review of efficacy, effectiveness and affordability for use in national guideline development
