PMMRC

Acronym	Definition
PMMRC	Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (New Zealand)

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"RANZCOG completely agrees with the PMMRC that wider, more imaginative thinking is required to attract women from at risk groups to access early maternity care.

The PMMRC's ninth annual report is available on the Health Quality & Safety Commission website.

Saving mothers and babies is number one priority

Estimates of the overall rate of smoking in pregnancy in New Zealand vary between 18.7% (Andrews et al., 2014) and 16.9% (PMMRC, 2013).

ABC by LMC midwives: an innovative intervention to support women to become smoke-free in pregnancy

PMMRC's seventh annual report was published last June.

Meeting the needs of birthing women: as the health needs of birthing women change, and sometimes become more complex, the demands on the midwifery workforce increase

The PMMRC (2015) has identified that congenital abnormality and prematurity are the leading causes of perinatal mortality, as well as other obstetric antecedents.

Multiparous women may be more likely to return to a prior LMC, and so early-career midwives may have higher rates of nulliparous clients, who are at higher risk of perinatal mortality (PMMRC, 2015).

A midwifery critical analysis of: a retrospective cohort study of the association between midwifery experience and perinatal mortality (Lawton et al., 2015)

The intrapartum stillbirth rate in New Zealand was 4.5:1000 in 2008 (PMMRC, 2010).

Comment on the Evers et al., (2010). Perinatal mortality and severe morbidity in low and high risk term pregnancies in the Netherlands