Standards, guidelines and other useful publications on maternity services in New Zealand.
Advice for health practitioners on vitamin D and sun exposure in pregnancy and infancy.
Maternity publications
Publications
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Published 10 December 2020 -
Published 10 December 2020Key information in one easy-to-use document, for health practitioners and others providing nutrition and physical activity advice to the public. The second edition of Eating and Activity Guidelines for New Zealand Adults includes advice for pregnant and breastfeeding women. -
Published 08 December 2020This report presents the activities and recommendations of the National Maternity Monitoring Group (NMMG) in their seventh year of operation, 2019/2020.
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Published 25 November 2020This publication provides clinical guidance for health professionals on the assessment, diagnosis and surgical treatment of tongue-tie in breastfeeding babies up to six weeks of age.
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Published 12 October 2020The New Zealand Maternity Clinical Indicators present comparative maternity interventions and outcomes data for pregnant women and their babies giving birth in New Zealand, by maternity facility and district health board region. -
Published 15 September 2020The Report on Maternity web tool provides health statistics about women giving birth, their pregnancy and childbirth experience and the characteristics of live-born babies in New Zealand. The focus is on births from 2009–2018. -
Published 04 September 2020This consultation is seeking feedback on proposed changes to the Primary Maternity Services Notice pursuant to Section 88 of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. -
Published 21 May 2020This publication is a maternity care data set standard for New Zealand, defining the information that must be recorded to support high-quality maternity care to women and their babies, and to provide structured and coded information for reporting and analytics. -
Published 30 January 2020This report profiles pressures on neonatal intensive care units and describes how they are functioning in today’s health environment. It also identifies opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the neonatal intensive care system -
Published 13 December 2019This publication provides new national guidance to support radiology professionals and lead maternity carers to deliver nationally consistent, clinically appropriate and high-quality maternity ultrasound services.