EVENT: 25 Mar 2019, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The Perioperative Mortality Review Committee is holding four regional workshops to introduce a tier 1 project on a web-based system for reviewing local perioperative deaths.
NEWS: 22 Jun 2018, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Offering surgery to people with hip fractures within 48 hours could lead to fewer deaths, a report by the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (POMRC) has found.
PUBLICATION: 22 Jun 2018, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
In this seventh report, the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee examined perioperative mortality in New Zealand following treatment for hip fractures.
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: 22 Jun 2017
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 25 May–22 June 2017 is now available online.
NEWS: 16 Jun 2017, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (POMRC) has identified what it says are unacceptable discrepancies in the mortality rates for New Zealand’s most deprived populations.
PUBLICATION: 16 Jun 2017, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
In this sixth report, the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee has examined perioperative mortality in New Zealand during 2010–2014 for two new areas of interest.
EVENT: 21 Jun 2017, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Registration is now open for the annual workshop of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee. Bring your team and learn about the latest evidence.
PUBLICATION: 8 Jul 2016, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Presentations from the POMRC workshop: 'Multidisciplinary review – we are all in this together' held on 13 June 2016.
NEWS: 20 Feb 2018, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission wishes to appoint an anaesthetist representative to the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
PUBLICATION: 9 Jun 2016, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Fifth annual report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
MEDIA RELEASE: 9 Jun 2016, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The latest report from the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (POMRC) has found that there is a slightly greater likelihood that people will die following surgery, if that surgery is carried out in the weekend.
EVENT: 13 Jun 2016, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Information about the 2016 Perioperative Mortality Review Committee workshop.
NEWS: 30 Oct 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission wishes to appoint two nursing representatives and a surgeon to the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
PUBLICATION: 7 Jul 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Presentations from the 'Mortality review – making it work for you and your patients' workshop from the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee, held on 15 June 2015.
NEWS: 15 Jun 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Speech notes from Hon Peter Dunne's opening address at the 2015 Perioperative Mortality Review Committee workshop.
NEWS: 15 Jun 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne is welcoming today’s release of the fourth annual Perioperative Mortality Review Committee’s (POMRC) report.
NEWS: 15 Jun 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The fourth report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee covering the period from 2008-2012 includes several new areas: coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG), percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PCTA), bariatric surgery and severe post
PUBLICATION: 15 Jun 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Fourth report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
NEWS: 4 May 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (POMRC) chair Dr Leona Wilson has just returned from the UK where she received some very positive feedback on the work the POMRC was doing and how it was perceived.
NEWS: 21 Apr 2015, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Issue 41 of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update is now available online.
NEWS: 21 Apr 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Registration is open for the annual workshop of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee, (POMRC) to be held on 15 June 2015 at the Heritage Hotel in Auckland.
EVENT: 15 Jun 2015, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Annual workshop of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee. Bring your team and learn how you can make hospital-based mortality review work for you.
PUBLICATION: 27 Jun 2014, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Presentations from the 'Bringing the data to life' workshop from the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee, held on 18 June 2014.
MEDIA RELEASE: 18 Jun 2014, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Media release from the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee regarding the release of the third report on death rates from surgery and anaesthesia.