National collections

National collections provide valuable health information to support decision-making in policy development, funding and at the point of care.

General Medical Subsidy collection

The General Medical Subsidy (GMS) collection contains data on the fee-for-service payments made to doctors for patient visits.

Laboratory claims collection

The laboratory claims collection (Labs) contains claim and payment information for community laboratory tests.

Mortality collection

The mortality collection (MORT) classifies the underlying cause of death for all deaths registered in New Zealand and all registered fetal deaths (stillbirths).

Medical Warning System collection

The Medical Warning System (MWS) is an alert service linked to National Health Index (NHI) numbers.

National Booking Reporting System collection

Information by health specialty and booking status on how many patients are waiting for elective surgery, and how long they have had to wait.

National Booking Reporting System data warehouse

Consolidated information from the National Booking Reporting System (NBRS) inpatient database, summary statistics, and cost weighted discharge information.

National maternity collection

The national maternity collection (MAT) provides statistics on selected publicly funded maternity services up to 9 months before and 3 months after a birth.

National Minimum Dataset — hospital events

A national collection of public and private hospital discharge information, including coded clinical data for same day and multi day inpatients.

National Non-Admitted Patient Collection

Information includes event-based purchase units that relate to medical and surgical outpatient events and emergency department events.

Pharmaceutical collection

The pharmaceutical collection is a data warehouse that supports the management of pharmaceutical subsidies.