Maternity publications

The 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.

This 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.

This 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.

The New Zealand Maternity Clinical Indicators present comparative maternity interventions and outcomes data for pregnant women and their babies, by maternity facility and district health board region.