Category Archives: General news

Safety in Practice communications

Calling Urgent Care Teams located in the Auckland and Waitemata DHBs!
Registration for the 2020 Safety in Practice programme is now open

MCNZ Request for a vocational trainee – application or nomination

The Medical Council of New Zealand (Council) is currently seeking to appoint a vocational trainee to its Education Committee (Committee).

Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Our official journal the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine has a new editor, Dr Joshua Russell, FAAEM, FACEP. You may know Joshua from UC-RAP, Hippo Education, and @ucpracticetips.

He’s looking for original research to help JUCM achieve PubMed citation status.

Health Quality & Safety Commission co-design training project

The HQSC is about to commence a project on developing co-design within the Primary Care Sector. The intention is to foster collaboration between local primary care teams to build capability in co-design, raise awareness of patient & consumer engagement, increase knowledge of service design methods, and apply these principles to a project of choice. The focus of this work will be achieving equity in health outcomes.

Who me – biased? He ngākau haukume tōku?

Health professionals are being encouraged to watch the new learning modules on understanding bias in health care, to be launched in November for Wiki Haumaru Tūroro | Patient Safety Week 2019. Patient Safety Week is an awareness-raising week held from 3 to 9 November. It is coordinated by the Health Quality & Safety Commission, with partners ACC and PHARMAC.

Consultation on MCNZ’s naming policy

MCNZ is seeking feedback on its proposed policy on publication of orders and directions, otherwise known as a ‘naming policy’.