Resource library

FVDRC submissions and input made between 2012 and 2023 on proposed Aotearoa New Zealand legislation changes and on government consultation and international forum processes.

Mortality data reports for the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee.

Mortality data reports for the Family Violence Death Review Committee.

These videos are recordings of presentations from Ka awatea: A new dawn – PMMRC recommendations in action, a webinar held on 8 June 2023.

This eighth report builds on the Family Violence Death Review Committee’s seventh report, which challenged us all, as a society, to reflect on and keep questioning how we demonstrate our care for one another.

Since 2019, the Family Violence Death Review Committee has been seeking the input of surviving family and whānau members as part of the in-depth review process. This article is a reflection on the process and how we can improve it.

In September 2021, Francis Health was commissioned by the Health Quality & Safety Commission to undertake an independent review that looked at the ‘first principles’ of mortality review as a function.

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 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.

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.