NEW ZEALAND HEALTH INFORMATION SERVICE
What’s new on this site
23 December
Health statistics and Publications are now available on a new and improved Data and Statistics section on the Ministry of Health website:
http://www.moh.govt.nz/dataandstatistics
20 November
Cancer: Selected sites 2006, 2007 and 2008
6 November
Discharges from Publicly Funded Hospitals - 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005
Discharges from Privately Funded Hospitals - 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005
30 October
Mortality and Demographic Data 2006
1 October 2009
Mental Health: Service use in New Zealand 2007/08 (provisional)
21 September 2009
National Health Index (NHI) Best Practice Guidelines
14 August 2009
Updated Weighted Inlier Equivalent Separations
Updated National Minimum Dataset (NMDS) Load Business Rules
Updated Code Tables
Principal health service purchaser code table
Purchase Unit code Table
Updated Data Dictionaries
National Booking Reporting System (NBRS) (version 3.8)
National Booking Reporting System Data Mart (NBRS DM) (version 2.4)
National Health Index (NHI) (version 5.3)
National Minimum Dataset (Hospital Events) (version 7.0)
National Minimum Dataset (Hospital Events) Data Mart (NMDS DM) (version 7.3)
National Non-Admitted Patient Collection (NNPAC DM) (version 2.1)
Updated File Specifications
National Booking Reporting System File Specification (version 4.1)
National Minimum Dataset (version 13.0)
National Non-admitted Patient Collection File Specification (version 2.1)
14 July 2009
PRIMHD (Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data) - website updated
11 May 2009
Infant and perinatal mortality in 2004, 2005 and 2006
1 May 2009
Selected Mortality Data 2005 and 2006-2008 (provisional)
11 February 2009
National Collections Annual Maintenance Project - information on changes to national collections from 2009 onwards will be available in the new NCAMP section on the main Ministry of Health website.
16 January 2009
Changes to the Medical Certificates of Causes of Death – Births, Deaths and Marriages (BDM) forms
1 July 2008
Clinical Coding Services Website relaunched.
14 December 2007
2008 NCAMP changes
1 May 2007
New Zealand SNOMED CT® National Release Centre
16 January 2007
Errata Maternal and Newborn Information 2003 added.
18 December 2006
2007 NCAMP changes.
02 November 2006
Mental Health Services Data Mart (MHS DM) data dictionary version 3.0.
02 November 2006
National Booking Reporting System Data Mart (NBRS DM) data dictionary version 2.1.
1 November 2006
New Zealand Coding Authority website.
15 Sep 2006
ICD-10-AM 6th Edition upgrade.
3 July 2006
Eight new publications are now available. The statistical tables they contain are also available for download as Excel files.
1 July 2006
As part of the 1 July system changes, note that there are new or revised versions of the following: WIES11B cost weights, the NBRS, NBRS DW, NMDS and MHINC data dictionaries, the NBRS, NMDS and MHINC file specifications, and the NBRS error messages.
21 June 2006
All the code tables are now available as both Excel tables and HTML tables.
13 June 2006
Pharms DM data dictionary version 4.
7 June 2006
The information on surgical activity in hospitals has been updated with data from July 2005 to March 2006.
22 May 2006
The forms for obtaining a digital certificate have been updated.
22 May 2006
Update to the NBRS information in the 1 July changes page.
22 May 2006
Further updates to the National Non-Admitted Patient Collection (NNPAC) information.
1 May 2006
New information about the National Non-Admitted Patient Collection (NNPAC), including Powerpoint presentations from the regional workshops.
28 April 2006
A ‘snapshot’ summary of maternity data for 2003 is now available, and can also be downloaded as a leaflet in PDF format.
28 April 2006
We have started updating the code tables – these will now be presented in table form instead of text, and will also be available as Excel files. The first in the new format is the Agency code table.
26 April 2006
National Non-Admitted Patient Collection questions and answers and error codes.
19 April 2006
References to the Immunisation Collection (Imms) removed, as this datamart is being discontinued.
28 March 2006
The NBRS Outpatient Monthly Returns Guide has been updated.
15 March 2006
The information on surgical activity in hospitals has been updated with data from July to December 2005.
10 March 2006
The list of legislation pertaining to NZHIS has been extended and updated.
21 February 2006
The provisional suicide statistics for 2003 are now available. There is also useful general information on suicide.
9 February 2006
Information about the National Non-admitted Patient Collection (NNPAC), including the NNPAC file specification.

