NEWS: 4 Jun 2020, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) congratulates Vicki Masson on her appointment as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020, for services to perinatal and maternal health.
PUBLICATION: 14 May 2020, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Family Violence Death Review Committee held a webinar in partnership with the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse to present the findings of the FVRDC Sixth Report 'Men who use violence'.
PUBLICATION: 13 May 2020, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
A position statement from the Suicide Mortality Review Committee on the impacts of COVID-19.
NEWS: 15 Apr 2020, Family Violence Death Review Committee
The Health Quality & Safety Commission (the Commission) board is seeking one member with senior legal experience to join the Family Violence Death Review Committee.
NEWS: 12 Mar 2020, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 20 February to 11 March 2020 is now available online.
PUBLICATION: 26 Mar 2020, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
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.
PUBLICATION: 11 Feb 2020, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
This report summarises the outcomes of a scoping project exploring the possibility of gathering and sharing ‘nuggets of gold’ – that is, stories from those with lived experience of suicide attempt.
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: 6 Jan 2020, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) will be providing direct oversight of the maternal morbidity collection and reporting, retrospective from 1 July 2019.
NEWS: 17 Dec 2019, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
Surgical teams and clinicians are being called to address equity for Māori by the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee.
NEWS: 17 Dec 2019, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The Perioperative Mortality Review Committee is calling on surgeons, anaesthetists and clinicians to address inequities in surgical services.
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.
PUBLICATION: 4 Dec 2019, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
Submission to Committee Secretariat, Finance and Expenditure Committee, from the Suicide Mortality Review Committee on the Arms Legislation Bill.
PUBLICATION: 4 Dec 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The Māori responsive rubric and guidelines are a tool to assist the Commission's mortality review committees with the interpretation, and reporting of, Māori mortality.
PUBLICATION: 17 Dec 2019, Perioperative Mortality Review Committee
The eighth Perioperative Mortality Review Committee report presents data and information on perioperative mortality in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2012 and 2017. In particular, it focuses on mortality following emergency laparotomy outcomes for Māori.
NEWS: 13 Nov 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) is seeking a new member to join its Neonatal Encephalopathy Working Group
NEWS: 31 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 10 to 30 October 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 16 Oct 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
Dr Paul Dalley presented on the comprehensive high-risk surgical patient pathway (CHRISP) being trialed at Capital & Coast DHB at the Choosing Wisely forum in May 2019.
NEWS: 11 Oct 2019, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
The Board of the Health Quality & Safety Commission is seeking a new member to join the Suicide Mortality Review Committee, to fill a vacancy to arise in December 2019.
NEWS: 9 Oct 2019, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
The Suicide Mortality Review Committee says health and social policy should not ignore Asian mental health.
PUBLICATION: 9 Oct 2019, Suicide Mortality Review Committee
This report focuses on the impact of suicide on the Asian population of Aotearoa New Zealand. In reviewing death by suicide affecting Asian people, the Suicide Mortality Review Committee aims to reinforce previous work and highlight areas requiring action
NEWS: 19 Sep 2019, Health Quality & Safety Commission
The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-digest for the period of 29 August to 18 September 2019 is now available online.
NEWS: 23 Sep 2019, Perinatal & Maternal Mortality Review Committee
The rate of stillbirths is reducing for Māori and NZ European mothers, a report by the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) has found.
PUBLICATION: 12 Sep 2019, Medication Safety
Tools to guide which medicines should be considered for deprescribing, part of the Commission's appropriate prescribing toolkit.
PUBLICATION: 23 Sep 2019, Perinatal & 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.