BEYOND THE NUMBERS :
Maternal and Perinatal Deaths
and Neonatal Encephalopathy in New
Zealand 2010
Thursday 14th June 2012
Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Session
Speaker(s)
09:00 Registration and Coffee
09:30 Official Welcome
Hon Jo Goodhew, Associate
Minister of Health
09:40 Introduction
Professor Cindy Farquhar
09:45 What’s in this year’s report? An overview of the 2010 report
Dr Lynn Sadler
10:15 Beyond the numbers: understanding potentially avoidable
deaths and evidence based approaches to prevention
Professor Julie Quinlivan
11:00 Morning tea
11:20 Midwifery challenges in addressing perinatal mortality in New
Zealand
Dr Judith McAra-Couper
11:50 The Healthy Beginnings report: does it address maternal
mortalities from suicide?
Dr Sara Weeks
12:20 Interventions to reduce maternal deaths in New Zealand.
Professor Julie Quinlivan
12:50 The 2011 Maternity Consumer Survey of Bereaved Women
Bronwen Pelvin
13:00 Question time
13:15 Lunch
14:00 Neonatal mortality and encephalopathy: the 2010 PMMRC
report
Dr Jeanie Cheong
14:30 Lessons from the first year’s data
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The role of cooling in treating babies
Dr Malcolm Battin
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Care after delivery: observation of the neonate
Dr Alex Wallace
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Palliative care for neonates
Dr Ross Drake
15:15 Question time
15:30 Afternoon tea
15:45 Panel presentation – Building blocks to reduce perinatal and
maternal mortality in NZ (one block per speaker)
Dr Jeanie Cheong
Dr Judith McAra-Couper
Bronwen Pelvin
Professor Ron Paterson
Alison Eddy
Vicki Culling
16:15 Wrap up – time for your questions
Professor Cindy Farquhar
and the panel
16:30 Finish