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Te Pū rauemi KOWHEORI-19 COVID-19 resource hub

Support for people working in health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find information about how you can support yourselves and others, including consumers, teams and colleagues which complements and aligns with Ministry of Health resources.

Kia āta kōwhiri Choosing Wisely

The Choosing Wisely campaign seeks to reduce harm from unnecessary and low-value tests and treatment.

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National review of avoidable deaths

Our role is to reduce avoidable deaths in Aotearoa New Zealand. We do this by analysing death-related statistics, reports and information on specific groups of deaths, such as family violence or babies and children, to reveal underlying causes.

In 2023 around 38,000 people died in Aotearoa, of which up to a quarter were potentially avoidable. We establish and report on how ethnicity, deprivation, the urban/rural divide, age, employment status, disability and access to medical care impact mortality. Our current programme includes four workstreams: child and youth, perinatal and maternal, perioperative, family violence.

About the national mortality review function

He Mutunga Kore National Mortality Review Committee

Mortality review subject matter experts

Mortality review workstreams

Researcher access to He Mutunga Kore the National Mortality Review Committee data

Find out more about Births and deaths: Year ended December 2023 (www.stats.govt.nz) 

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Featured resources

Sixteenth Annual Report of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee | Te Pūrongo ā-Tau Tekau mā Ono o te Komiti Arotake Mate Pēpi, Mate Whaea Hoki

The Sixteenth Annual Report of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee | Te Pūrongo ā-Tau Tekau mā Ono o te Komiti Arotake Mate Pēpi, Mate Whaea Hoki.

Ninth report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee | Te pūrongo tuaiwa o te Komiti Arotake Mate Whai Muri mai i te Poka

Equity in major trauma outcomes is the focus of this ninth Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (POMRC) report.

Te Pūrongo ā-Tau Tekau mā Toru o te Komiti Arotake Mate Pēpi, Mate Whaea Hoki | Thirteenth Annual Report of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee

The Thirteenth Annual Report of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee | Te Pūrongo ā-Tau Tekau mā Toru o te Komiti Arotake Mate Pēpi, Mate Whaea Hoki.

Te Pou – Māori responsive rubric and guidelines

Ngā Pou Arawhenua has assisted the Health Quality & Safety Commission's mortality review committees to better understand Māori mortality review practice through the production of Te Pou, the Māori responsive rubric and guidelines.

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