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- Serious and Sentinel Events 2011/12
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Report finds suicide remains leading cause of maternal death
Report finds suicide remains leading cause of maternal death
The annual report of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee shows suicide continues to be the leading cause of maternal deaths.
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Paper supports focus on hospitals’ hand hygiene
Paper supports focus on hospitals’ hand hygiene
A paper published today in the New Zealand Medical Journal supports a focus on improving hand hygiene in hospitals to reduce hospital-acquired infections.
- CYMRC media release: Lives saved but more action needed to prevent infant and child deaths
- Focus on polypharmacy and the management of gout
- Health Quality & Safety Commission congratulates Whanganui DHB
- Family Violence Death Review Committee welcomes New Zealand Police Report
- Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee calls for interagency approach on butane
- Basic hand hygiene important in control of superbugs
- Congratulating efforts to improve hand hygiene
- Clean hands save lives
- Surviving the risk-taking years
- Reminder of deadly impact of alcohol on children

















