2020 news

A number of updates have applied to supplementary codes that support Australian coronial data in the NCIS:

• The October to December quarterly update for incident, residential and death address geocoding has been completed.
• Preliminary ICD-10 codes for Australian 2018 cases have been updated to include z codes and preliminary ICD-10 codes for Australian 2019 cases have been added.
• Safe Work Australia codes for 2019 work-related deaths have been added.

See system updates for further information.

Fatal facts edition 64 contains summaries of cases and recommendations made between January and March 2020.

A coroner may make recommendations following an investigation that relate to public health and safety to help prevent similar deaths in the future.

Fatal facts is a unique NCIS service providing access to coronial recommendations from across all Australian states and territories.  It contains cases closed by a coroner from 2000.

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An average of 7520 injury deaths of Australian residents are reported in Australia every year, according to a new fact sheet released by the National Coronial Information System (NCIS) Unit today.

The fact sheet Injury deaths by residential remoteness area in Australia examines all closed case external cause deaths of persons residing in Australia reported to a coroner between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2017

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Users can now search and/or return geocodes applied to death address in the NCIS.

See system updates for further information.

The NCIS provides operational statistics on a quarterly basis to assist users in interpreting search results.

The NCIS operational statistics have been updated as of 1 October 2020.

The applicable statistics are:

• case closure statistics
• document attachment statistics.

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An average of 350 young people die due to intentional self-harm in Australia every year, according to a new fact sheet released by the National Coronial Information System (NCIS) Unit today.

The fact sheet, Intentional self-harm deaths of young persons in Australia, examines all closed case intentional self-harm deaths of persons aged under 25 years reported to an Australian coroner between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2017.

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Fatal facts edition 63 contains summaries of cases and recommendations made between October and December 2019.

A coroner may make recommendations following an investigation that relate to public health and safety to help prevent similar deaths in the future.

Fatal facts is a unique NCIS service providing access to coronial recommendations from across all Australian states and territories.  It contains cases closed by a coroner from 2000.

View Fatal facts

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, a day aimed at raising awareness and reinforcing commitment to suicide prevention.

The NCIS Unit is dedicated to assisting researchers in accessing coronial data for the purposes of death and injury prevention, including in efforts to reduce suicide.

There are currently 17 third party research projects specifically examining intentional self-harm deaths that have ethical approval to use NCIS data.

Recent research publications examining NCIS intentional self-harm data include:

• Economic and epidemiological impact of youth suicide in countries with the highest human development index (External link)
• Acute alcohol use in Australian coronial suicide cases, 2010-2015 (External link)
• Australian Suicide Prevention using Health-Linked Data (ASHLi): Protocol for a population-based case series study (External link)

Explore research publications using NCIS data

NCIS fact sheets on intentional self-harm are also available, including:

• Mortality data series (available for 2014 to 2017)
• Intentional self-harm deaths of emergency services personnel in Australia
• Intentional self-harm deaths of older persons in Australia.

NCIS Fatal facts provides access to summaries of cases where coronial recommendations have been made. The Fatal facts search tool can be filtered by category, such as intentional self-harm and mental illness and health, to identify specific case types and recommendation topics.

We acknowledge that this content may be distressing. If you or someone you care for is in need of assistance, support services are available.

Fatal facts edition 62 contains summaries of cases and recommendations made between July and September 2019.

A coroner may make recommendations following an investigation that relate to public health and safety to help prevent similar deaths in the future.

Fatal facts is a unique NCIS service providing access to coronial recommendations from across all Australian states and territories.  It contains cases closed by a coroner from 2000.

View Fatal facts

An average of 190 people die due to injury from a sport or recreation incident in Australia every year, according to a new fact sheet released by the National Coronial Information System (NCIS) Unit today.

The fact sheet, Sport and recreation deaths in Australia, examines all closed case injury deaths due to a sport or physical recreation incident reported to an Australian coroner between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2017.

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Fatal facts edition 61 contains summaries of cases and recommendations made between April and June 2019.

A coroner may make recommendations following an investigation that relate to public health and safety to help prevent similar deaths in the future.

Fatal facts is a unique NCIS service providing access to coronial recommendations from across all Australian states and territories.  It contains cases closed by a coroner from 2000.

View Fatal facts

Two changes were implemented to the NCIS in August 2020:

• a new section titled System notices is now available on the NCIS Home page
• the Last seen alive field has been renamed Last known alive.

See system updates for further information.

Fatal facts edition 60 contains summaries of cases and recommendations made between January and March 2019.

A coroner may make recommendations following an investigation that relate to public health and safety to help prevent similar deaths in the future.

Fatal facts is a unique NCIS service providing access to coronial recommendations from across all Australian states and territories.  It contains cases closed by a coroner from 2000.

View Fatal facts

The NCIS provides operational statistics on a quarterly basis to assist users in interpreting search results.

The NCIS operational statistics have been updated as of 1 July 2020.

The applicable statistics are:

• case closure statistics
• document attachment statistics

View operational statistics

A number of updates have been applied to external codes that support coronial data in the NCIS:

• death address geocoding is now available for the first time for NCIS records
• the quarterly update for incident and residential address geocoding has been completed
• ICD-10 codes for 2018 now available on Australian and New Zealand records
• ICD-10 codes for 2016 and 2017 Australian cases updated with latest versions
• Births, Deaths and Marriages (BDM) data for Indigenous status and Place of birth now available for 2018 Australian records.

See system updates for further information.