New Plymouth Statistics

Injury Prevention Needs Assessment

 New Plymouth injury Safe Trust commission a a Community Based Injury Prevention Needs Assessment every 5 years.

 The first Needs Assessment was carried out in 2001 with funding support from ACC. This involved the analysis of local and national injury statistics and extensive consultation with local organisations and individuals with an interest in injury prevention. The purpose of the Needs Assessment was to identify patterns of injury in New Plymouth District and to inform future injury prevention priorities and action.

 The Needs Assessment was repeated in 2006, updating injury statistics and information on injury patterns since 2001. Most noticeably, the period has seen a downward trend in injury-related hospitalisation rates (at a time when national age-standardised injury hospitalisation rates were steadily increasing).

The next Injury Prevention Needs Assessment is due to be carried out in 2011.

Copies of the Needs Assessments can be accessed below:

NPiS Injury Prevention Needs Assessment 2001 (Full Report)

NPiS Injury Prevention Needs Assessment 2001 (Summary Report)

NPiS Injury Prevention Needs Assessment 2006 (Full Report)

NPiS Injury Prevention Needs Assessment 2006 (Appendices to Report)

NPiS Injury Prevention Needs Assessment 2006 (Summary Report)

Safe Communities Foundation NZ Reports

Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand (SCFNZ) also compile reports on injury statistics to support the New Plymouth International Safe Communities Initiative.

The Profile on Injury Data for New Plymouth presents all age data on injury hospitalisations and injury death for the most recent five year period. (2003-2007 for hospitalisation data and 2001-2005 for injury death data). The injury hospitalisation and death data was sourced via the Injury Prevention Research Unit (IPRU) from the New Zealand Health Information Service.

Suicide Prevention Needs Assessment 

New Plymouth injury Safe also carried out a Taranaki Suicide Prevention Needs Assessment in 2008. The purpose of this needs assessment was to inform future development of suicide prevention initiatives in Taranaki.

Copies of the Needs Assessment can be accessed below:

Taranaki Suicide Prevention Needs Assessment 2008 (Full Report)

Taranaki Suicide Prevention Needs Assessment (Summary Report)