This report presents the findings from the Independent Review of Complexity in the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for health practitioners. The recommendations set out four key transformation directions, supported by 26 specific actions to advance these.

Adverse events during hospital care are a global concern. The evidence for addressing unsafe acute care using pay-for-performance is inconclusive. This research examined the association between the introduction of a financial penalty introduced by Australian policy in July 2018 and the prevalence of 13 high-priority hospital-acquired complications in Australian public hospitals.

This report examines how patient safety governance mechanisms in OECD countries have withstood the test of COVID-19 and provides recommendations for countries in further improving patient safety governance and strengthening health system resilience.

The author of this paper argues that embedding value-based payment models into the Australian healthcare system must travel down a digital road, while maintaining clinical safety and promoting health equity.

Precision health is an exciting and rapidly developing field that holds the potential to significantly improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, whānau and communities across Aotearoa. The Ministry of Health wants to hear about the opportunities and challenges that exist now and into the future, and what areas might be suitable for case studies...