Sarah Young

Pharmacist and Programme Manager with interests in Quality Improvement and Quality Use of Medicines

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

Learning lots of tips and getting new ideas from @helenbevan at the @HQSCNZ Open Forum today in Wellington!

[Sandy Bhawan @SandyBhawan]

At the heart of virtual collaboration is social leadership - inspired already by @helenbevan at the Open Forum in Wellington today @HQSCNZ #hqsc

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

Today we have the pleasure of attending the @HQSCNZ #OpenForum, "Is the Quality and Safety Agenda Stalling?" Presented by Professor Mary Dixon-Woods @Cambridge_Uni

https://t.co/SirVHbfaC4

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

Congratulations @SandyBhawan!

[Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission @HQSCNZ]

Congratulations @SandyBhawan who has been made a Fellow of @PharmSocNZ. Through our partnership with @PHARMACnz, Sandy suppports the Commission's Whakakotahi projects focused on medicines access equity: https://t.co/g86dRfzdUz

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

What is a "nudge"??

[Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission @HQSCNZ]

What is a ‘nudge’? It’s a way of subtly influencing the choices we make, by changing the way those choices are presented to us. We’ve used ‘nudges’ to respond to the lower-scoring areas of the adult inpatient experience survey. Stay tuned for more. #Nudge #BehaviouralScience

[Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission @HQSCNZ]

Issue 103 of our e-Digest is out now! Read about a @CCDHB co-design project to minimise wait times for spinal unit services, a blog from the Suicide Mortality Review Committee, our new guide 'Progressing consumer engagement in primary care' and more at: https://t.co/cn2zJgvzYg.

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

Unichem Russell Street, Hastings have been working on a project to improve asthma management for Māori and Pacific children attending their pharmacy.
See the infographic below for more info!
#hqscnz #unichem #hawkesbay #Hastings #whakakotahi #qualityimprovement #primarycare

[Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission @HQSCNZ]

A Hastings community pharmacy’s project to improve asthma management in a group of Māori and Pacific children has left everyone breathing easier.

Read more here: https://t.co/tWArZrs8qj

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

Dr Lance Sullivan working to improve access to healthcare for New Zealanders!
"Hundreds of drive-through mobile medical clinics are planned by 2020 in an ambitious bid to make healthcare "as accessible as Uber""
https://t.co/vHdtZ4TUK2

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

Using the information from the sector to inform scale and spread of our Primary Care Quality Improvement programme, Whakakotahi @hqscnz @RNZCGP #GP19 #whakakotahi #primarycare

[Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission @HQSCNZ]

What does the primary care sector want from the scale and spread of quality improvement in primary care? Find out how @HQSCNZ plans to shape the implementation of scale and spread for the Whakakotahi primary care quality improvement programme at @RNZCGP #GP19Dunedin.

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

NZ patient experience survey from last year showed 37% of New Zealanders aged between 15 - 44 did not see their GP or nurse in the last 12 months due to cost.
Let's work together to improve healthcare in New Zealand!

[Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission @HQSCNZ]

New data from over 72,000 patients who responded to a survey about their experiences with New Zealand health services shows one in five reported not visiting a GP or nurse due to cost in the last 12 months. #GP19Dunedin

Read more here: https://t.co/7dDbd5l4kv

[Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission @HQSCNZ]

#GP19Dunedin Come and see us at the GP conference this weekend (booth five) to pick up our latest resource: Progressing consumer engagement in primary care. @RNZCGP #PrimaryCare

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

The Fono Story is now up on the HQSC website!
Follow the link below to read more about their Happy Skin project tipp reduce skin infections in the Tuvaluan community.
@thefonohealth @HQSCNZ
https://t.co/GH07GLUWkt

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

Four team members from the Health Quality and Safety Commission's Whakakotahi Primary Care Team @RNZCGP #GP19 conference last night.
Dr John Wellingham - Clinical Lead, Sandy Bhawan, Adele Small and Sarah Young @HQSCNZ @PHARMACnz @Te_Tihi #Dunedin

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

Good morning Dunedin! Shaping up to be a wonderful Day 2 of #GP19!
Lots of amazing work being shared today. Come along to session 4e - Quality Improvement, to hear from Dr John Kennelly and Janet Tekori from #TheFono #Fono!
#RNZCGP #Dunedin #hqsc #hqscnz #whakakotahi

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

At the Dunedin Centre Town Hall with #HQSCNZ for the Royal New Zealand College of GPs Conference! Come and see us at Stand 5!
#gp19 #RNZCGP #Dunedin #primarycare

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

@BelindaBitsch @kengrace @cartoonsbyjim I bought you Belinda! Jim thought I was crazy. You're welcome. 💥❤

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

"Kiwi falls over from being over-excited about food"

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

It's wonderful to see all the passion in the room from these wonderful primary care teams involved in the 2019 Whakakotahi programme! Thank you @HQSCNZ @PHARMACnz @Te_Tihi

[Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission @HQSCNZ]

Eight primary care teams from around the country have come together to discuss equity, consumer co-design and integration in their Whakakotahi quality improvement projects. For more information on Whakakotahi, visit our website: https://t.co/TRnp6xIj3p

[Sarah Young @Sarahyoungnz]

We are being treated to wonderful presentations at the 2019 Whakakotahi Learning Session 1 in Wellington today!
Thank you @HQSCNZ @PHARMACnz @Te_Tihi

[Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission @HQSCNZ]

The 2019 Whakakotahi quality improvement programme is underway with learning session 1 being held in Wellington today. Adele Small @Te_Tihi & Sandy Bhawan @PHARMACnz are presenting on equity, and showed this great video by Dr @CamaraJones: https://t.co/kt1E9PZlXH

[Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora @minhealthnz]

Our Director-General, Dr Ashley Bloomfield spoke to delegates at the #cancercrossroads conference yesterday. "Breast screening rates for Maori women increased between 2007 and 2018 from 42% to 64%, Pacific women 38% to 70%. Cancer inequalities can and should be eliminated."