The Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity (CCOPMM) is responsible for collecting and monitoring data on all Victorian births. Health services are required to report the information set out in the Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity (CCOPMM) birth report for inclusion in the Victorian Perinatal Data Collection (VPDC). This includes non-hospital births and birth-related events from 20 weeks gestation onwards.
The CCOPMM relies upon the cooperation of obstetricians, neonatologists, paediatricians, midwives, general practitioners and medical records personnel to provide it with the maximum amount of relevant information on each case. A Perinatal Death Certificate and a Confidential Medical Report on Perinatal Death is completed for each stillbirth or neonatal death by the attending physician or pathologist.
CCOPMM authorises release of data items required for a specific linkage request. Available data items include: maternal characteristics, obstetric conditions, procedures and outcomes, neonatal morbidity and birth anomalies.
The VPDC Perinatal webform is required to be completed, or in the case of hospitals providing electronic extracts, an extract is required, by all public hospitals, private hospitals, and private midwifery or medical practitioners who deliver babies outside hospitals, for all births occurring in Victoria. The scope of the Collection includes all live births, and stillbirths of at least 20 weeks gestation and/or at least 400 grams in weight. Information relating to neonatal morbidity is collected up until the baby is discharged from the birth admission or up until the baby reaches 28 days of age.
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Administrative. The purpose of these data collections is to conduct study and research into the health of mothers and babies in Victoria, to support health service planning and develop government policy with the aim of preventing avoidable deaths and promoting healthy outcomes. The VPDC also supports Victoria’s reporting obligations under the National Health and Hospitals Agreement and the National Health Agreement.
Victorian state data
Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996
Health Services Act 1988
Information Privacy Act 2000
Health Records Act 2001
Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2019
Health Services (Private Hospitals and Day Procedure Centre) Regulations 2013
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