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Quality Accounts – how we’re meeting Canterbury’s needs
December 11, 2014
Quality Accounts – a snapshot of how we’re meeting Canterbury’s needs
The third edition of the Canterbury Health System Quality Accounts have been published.
The Quality Accounts provide a snapshot of how the Canterbury Health System is meeting the needs of our community and we hope you will take a moment to check how we are doing.
David Meates, Canterbury DHB chief executive says the Quality Accounts demonstrate the Canterbury Health System’s commitment to high quality health care.
“It also shows how we are progressing with continuous quality improvement and how we monitor quality and safety. It highlights our successes, what we have learned and our future plans,” Mr Meates says.
This year’s Quality Accounts has 10 key
areas:
• Consumer experience
• Preventing
harm
• Fewer people needing hospital care
• People
are seen and treated early
• People are supported to
stay well
• Living within our
means
• Equity
• Improving end of life
care
• It’s all happening – facilities
developments
• How we measure up.
The key areas support the health system’s goal to keep people healthy and well in their own homes and communities.
Additional sections including ‘Consumer experience’, ‘It’s all happening’ and ‘How we measure up’ are important development areas for Canterbury.
“‘It’s all happening’ is our section detailing the facilities redevelopment and ‘How we measure up’ tracks our performance with the National Health Targets and the Quality and Safety Markers set by the Health Quality and Safety Commission. It also outlines our focus for the coming year.”
The Quality Accounts require health care providers to give an account for the quality of their services in a similar way to financial accounts showing how an organization used its money.
The Canterbury DHB Quality Accounts are released and published on our website. Hard copies will be available for to read in waiting rooms throughout Canterbury DHB hospitals and the community.
If you have any feedback about these Quality Accounts and whether they provide relevant and useful information on the quality of health services being delivered in Canterbury, please email qualityaccounts@cdhb.health.nz or write to Susan Wood, Director Quality and Patient Safety, Canterbury DHB, PO Box 1600, Christchurch.
ENDS
Canterbury DHB
CDHB
Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) is a Christchurch, New Zealand based hospital and healthcare provider for the
Canterbury region of New Zealand. Our region extends from Kekerengu in the North, to Rangitata in the South and Arthurs Pass in the West and comprises the six Territorial Local Authorities of Kaikoura, Hurunui, Waimakariri, Christchurch City, Selwyn and Ashburton.
We collaborate with other health and disability organisations, stakeholders and our community to decide what health and disability services are needed and how to best use the funding we receive from Government to improve, promote and protect the health, wellbeing and independence of our population.
At the Canterbury DHB, our vision is to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Canterbury.
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