New Zealand Quality of Healthcare Study (NZQHS)

This project was funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand. The overall goal of the study was to identify the occurrence, causation, impact and preventability of injury to patients due to health care management, with a view both to advancing understanding of the quality of health care in a “no fault” legal environment, and to actively improving the quality of care received by future patients in New Zealand public hospitals.

The lead technical report can be downloaded from the Ministry of Health’s website .

In addition a number of academic papers have been published.