Health Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand

The Health Quality & Safety Commission works with clinicians, providers and consumers to improve health and disability support services.

Quality and safety improvements will mean fewer people harmed, more lives saved, and financial savings within the sector.

Vision:
Their vision  is quality health for all.

Mission:
Their mission is Whakauru. Notification. Influence. Upgrade. Involve. Inform. Influence. Improve.

Their strategic priorities are:
• improving experience for consumers and whānau
• embedding and enacting Te Tiriti o Waitangi, supporting mana motuhake
• achieving health equity
• strengthening systems for high-quality services.
Their programme areas include advance care planning, adverse events, aged residential care, building leadership and capability, infection prevention and control, medication safety, mental health and addiction, trauma, patient deterioration, consumer engagement, primary care and mortality review.

What they do:
• Monitor and report on quality and safety
• Build sector capability for quality and safety improvement
• Support clinicians to be leaders of quality and safety improvement and follow best practice
• Build consumer engagement and partnership
• Support reporting and management of health care incidents
• Manage mortality review functions
• Influence the health quality and safety agenda and be a catalyst for change
• Ensure success in their programme areas.