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This report asks why rangatahi, compared with non-Māori young people, have higher rates of death by suicide and what Aotearoa New Zealand is doing, and what else we could do, to prevent rangatahi from taking their lives by suicide.

This document is a thematic analysis of feedback on the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s report, Bula Sautu – A window on quality 2021: Pacific health in the year of COVID-19.

Matthew was 16 years old when he developed appendicitis. His mum, Heather, took him to the local emergency department and he had surgery that night to remove his appendix.

This is the MMWG’s second annual report. It outlines the work of the MMWG and provides an update on what we have achieved this year and an overview of next steps.

Vicki Culling from the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) discusses the loss of her first baby from a still birth, and her involvement as a consumer representative on the PMMRC.

This year’s A window on quality 2021 explores the secondary impacts of our response on selected aspects of the functioning of our health system so we can learn from that experience and shape resilient system responses in the future.

This is a video recording of a presentation by Professor Paul Bowie about human factors and maternity systems.

Helen McKernan talks about her mother’s death, following a hospital medication error. Helen's mother was given the wrong medication for four days because of a chart mix up and inadequate checking.

This paper (Social Science and Medicine 73 (2011) 217-225) examines the challenges of investigating clinical incidents through the use of Root Cause Analysis.