NEWS: 7 Aug 2020, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) Board is seeking two members to join the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee.
NEWS: 19 Dec 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 28 November to 18 December 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 13 Dec 2019, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Te Tiriti-led quality improvement across the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s mortality review programme was the focus for the two-day annual workshop of the Child Youth Mortality Review Committee (CYMRC), held recently in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
NEWS: 29 Aug 2018, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission board is seeking a member to join the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee (CYMRC).
NEWS: 26 Apr 2018, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
The 13th data report of the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee (CYMRC) has been released. This report, covering 2012–2016, shows that in 2016, 483 children and young people died.
MEDIA RELEASE: 26 Apr 2018, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Children and young people living in the most deprived areas are three times more likely to die in childhood or adolescence than those living in the least deprived areas, a report has found.
NEWS: 6 Dec 2017, Health Quality & Safety Commission
This week, all mortality review committees and the Māori caucus gathered at an open forum in Auckland.
NEWS: 13 Apr 2017, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
This report, covering 2011-15, shows that in 2015, 536 children and young people died which is more than in the previous two years (486 in 2014, and 516 in 2013), but fewer than in the years prior.
PUBLICATION: 13 Apr 2017, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
The 12th data report released for the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee reporting on data of deaths in children and young people aged 28 days to 24 years who died in New Zealand from 2002 to the present.
PUBLICATION: 31 Jan 2017, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
This seventh activities report presents the activities of the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee (CYMRC) from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2016.
MEDIA RELEASE: 2 Dec 2016, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Around 3000 lives have been saved in the past 20 years because of efforts to prevent sudden unexpected death in infants (SUDI).
PUBLICATION: 8 Jun 2016, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Powerpoint presentation outlining the work the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee does to reduce avoidable deaths.
MEDIA RELEASE: 3 Jun 2016, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
New figures from the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee (CYMRC) show deaths of children and young people continue to decline. In 2014, 488 children and young people aged 28 days to 24 years died, compared with 620 deaths in 2010.
NEWS: 28 Jan 2016, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission Board is seeking three members to join the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee.
MEDIA RELEASE: 16 Dec 2015, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
A new report discusses how rates of whooping cough can be reduced by immunising women during pregnancy and improving education about the illness.
PUBLICATION: 16 Dec 2015, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Special report from the Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee – Mortality and morbidity of pertussis in children and young people in New Zealand 2002–14.
NEWS: 9 Oct 2015, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Issue 45 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 2 Oct 2015, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
A presentation delivered by Dr Nick Baker at the ACC quad bike child safety forum on 18 September 2015.
NEWS: 28 Sep 2015, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Nick Baker and Brandy Griffin (CYMRC) have received 'highly commended' for their poster Recommendations and actions – attributes most associated with system improvement which featured at the APAC forum.
PUBLICATION: 28 Sep 2015, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Poster by Nick Baker and Brandy Griffin (CYMRC): Recommendations and actions – attributes most associated with system improvement. (Highly commended at APAC Forum 2015.)
MEDIA RELEASE: 18 Feb 2015, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
The number of children and young people who die in New Zealand each year has more than halved since 1980, a new report shows.
MEDIA RELEASE: 17 Dec 2014, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
A report into the deaths of children in motorcycle, quad bike and other ‘off-road vehicle’ accidents is calling for cross-sector collaboration to tackle what is the country’s second largest cause of recreational death for those aged under 15.
PUBLICATION: 17 Dec 2014, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Special report from the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee: Child and youth mortality from motorcycle, quad bike and motorised agricultural vehicle use, with a focus on deaths under age 15 years.
MEDIA RELEASE: 10 Dec 2014, Child & Youth Mortality Review Committee
Is the latch on the gate to your swimming pool working properly? Are there any parts of the fence small children might crawl under? Checking these and other aspects of a pool is one of the things New Zealanders can do to help children stay safe...