South Island Well Child Tamariki Ora Quality Improvement Project

Ocean Reanalyses Inter-Comparison Project (ORA-IP)

Nurse led venesection: a quality improvement project

Venesection is a widely practised procedure, involving the removal of a unit of blood in order to treat haemochromatosis and polycythaemia. It is still well regarded due to a lack of better alternatives and a small side effect profile. At Barnet General Hospital, venesection has recently been a physician led service, unlike its neighbouring hospital at Chase Farm Hospital, which has a well run ...

Can a quality improvement project impact maternal and child health outcomes at scale in northern Ghana?

BACKGROUND Quality improvement (QI) interventions are becoming more common in low- and middle-income countries, yet few studies have presented impact evaluations of these approaches. In this paper, we present an impact evaluation of a scale-up phase of 'Project Fives Alive!', a QI intervention in Ghana that aims to improve maternal and child health outcomes. 'Project Fives Alive!' employed a QI...

Community Child Health (CCH) nurses' experience of home visits for new mothers: a quality improvement project.

This paper explores Community Child Health (CCH) nurses' experience of home visits for new mothers in a health service region of Western Australia. Reported benefits of home visits include improvement in maternal and child health and better parenting skills leading to positive maternal-child interaction. Despite CCH nurses' support for home visits factors such as costs, lack of resources and st...

South Island kokako search, Abut Head, South Island

This document describes a search for South Island kokako, carried out in September and November 1997, following a detailed report of presumed kokako seen recently by Barry Donovan atAbut Head, South Westland. Two sites where possible sightings were made were investigated intensively, while a more general search was carried out at other parts of Abut Head. Search methods involved broadcasting an...