Improvement & Innovation
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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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’
- Knowledge and Skills Framework for Cancer Nursing 2014
- Statement of Intent 2015 to 2019 (Ministry of Health)
- Implementing Medicines New Zealand 2015 to 2020
- Ninth Annual Report of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee
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
- 20,000 Days and Beyond: Evaluation of CMDHB’s quality improvement campaigns
- Level 2 Advance Care Planning Practitioner Training Review
- District health board employed workforce quarterly report: 1 January to 31 March 2015
- A bi national registry of adults with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension complicating Congenital Heart Disease
- Connecting leisure-time physical activity and quality of sleep to nurse health: Data from the e-Cohort Study of Nurses and Midwives
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
- Nutrition therapy in critically ill patients- a review of current evidence for clinicians
- How do you know which health care effectiveness research you can trust? A guide to study design for the perplexed
