Tools for service managers

Your DHB has recently received a letter from the Chair of the Health Quality and Safety Commission and the Chair of the Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee, requesting that DHBs prioritise the prevention of sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI).

This page offers tools to support you, as service manager, as well as your Safe Sleep Champion, with this work. Tools have been introduced to your nominated Safe Sleep Champion and are available here. Tools have been developed by Change for our Children as templates. They may be modified and adapted as appropriate to your environment.

Management tools

Below is a list of tools for providing a supportive environment for action on sudden infant death, by professionals and families.

Model for creating change
Letter from the Health Quality and Safety Commission New Zealand
Tool kit

Sample materials

Auckland DHB National Women's Safe Sleep Policy
Nelson DHB Safe Sleep Policy
New Zealand College of Midwives Safe Infant Sleeping Consensus
Draft policy framework -SI Health Alliance member DHB's Feb 2013