Publications

The 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.

This report describes the basic descriptive epidemiology of COVID-19 cases in health care and support workers in Aotearoa New Zealand until 12 June 2020.

This publication is a summary of feedback that was received about the Kia Kaha, Kia Māia, Kia Ora Aotearoa: COVID-19 Psychosocial and Mental Wellbeing Recovery Plan. It summarises the prominent themes from that feedback and includes examples of specific suggestions. 

A guide for immunisation providers on the 2020 changes to the National Immunisation Schedule.

This is an implementation guide that provides details for using electronic messaging to submit COVID-19 laboratory results into the COVID-19 result repository.

The Immunisation Handbook 2020 provides clinical guidelines for health professionals on the safest and most effective use of vaccines in their practice.

This is a second round of consultation, following the publication of certain codes of practice (CoPs) issued under the Radiation Safety Act 2016, on requirements to use validated internal capability or external services that meet a certain International Organisation Standard (ISO) to ensure accuracy and uniformity of individual monitoring or leak testing outcomes.

This report considers the health system's response to the 2019 measles outbreaks, and includes a set of recommendations to improve the health system’s ability to prevent and respond to measles and other disease outbreaks.

This report examines the supply and distribution of influenza vaccines in 2020 and identifies improvements for the 2021 influenza season and beyond.

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.