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The Quality Improvement Programme (QI Programme) launched 1 July 2024. The programme will be rolled out over three years, with year one focusing on building Quality Improvement capability in general practice.
The quarterly patient experience survey (PES) is the biggest health survey in New Zealand and is a great way of getting feedback from patients. Read all the need-to-know information about successfully running the survey here.
The national screening programme for cervical screening has been one of the most successful programmes in the world to reduce the incidence and death from cervical cancer. Since the programme has begun we've seen a steady decline in cervical cancer deaths - by about 60 per cent.
Foundation Standard and Cornerstone® are developed by the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. They include a variety of quality assurance and improvement goals relating to minimum patient safety and legal requirements, supporting New Zealand general practitioners and their teams.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in New Zealand.
A core principle of good health service design is to work with patients as equal partners in their health care and enabling them to contribute to service developments with practice teams.
Being smokefree is still one of the biggest positive changes a person can make for their health. We know for every 40 smokers offered brief advice one person will quit.
There are almost a quarter of a million people in New Zealand diagnosed with diabetes and another 100,000 who have it but don't know.
This year there is an overall focus on equity through the plan for general practice. As we move towards a different way of measuring quality, we have made the decision to roll over the 2021-2022 goals over for the next 12 months. In addition we are making a small change to ensure there is a small amount of funding regularly going to practices to support quality activities.
A patient portal is a secure online website for patients to access their health information and interact with their general practice team. Portal use encourages patient empowerment and self-management.