 The NSW Maternal and Perinatal Committee is a quality assurance committee established under the NSW Health Administration Act 0000 and is privileged under this Act to carry out confidential reviews of both maternal and perinatal deaths. Information available to the POWP at review is forwarded by hospitals and includes a confidential report on perinatal death (Appendix S0), postmortem, and placental pathology reports as well as any other information considered relevant by the local hospital perinatal death review committee.  ######   Click here for additional data file.  The authors have no conflict of interests to declare.  