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The National Coronial Information System (NCIS) is the world’s first national database of coronial information. It assists coroners, their staff, public sector agencies, researchers and other agencies in obtaining coronial data to inform death and injury prevention activities.

The NCIS holds information about every death reported a Coroner in Australia from July 2000 (Queensland data from 1 July 2001) and every death reported to a Coroner in New Zealand from July 2007. The data includes demographic, contextual and circumstantial information, as well as searchable legal, medical and scientific reports such as the coroners finding, post mortem report, toxicology report and police summary of death report. Supplementary data is provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the New Zealand Ministry of Health (MOH). All deaths occurring in Australia and New Zealand are coded in accordance with the International Classification of Death – Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes.

History
The National Coronial Information System was established in Australia following the recognition by coroners that their mandate for public health and safety could be improved if they could identify previous similar deaths.

In 1997, the Australian Coroners’ Society endorsed a business plan for the development and management of the NCIS, put forward by a consortium called the Monash University National Centre for Coronial Information (MUNCCI). The consortium was made up of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (a statutory agency of the Victorian Department of Justice and Regulation, which also hosts the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University), Monash University’s Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, and the Monash University Accident Research Centre.

The NCIS was launched in 2000 with the objective to securely share case information beyond state and territory borders for the purpose of coronial investigation and death prevention[4].

The NCIS was managed by MUNCCI until 2004. The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine subsequently managed the system from 2004-2012. Since 2012, the NCIS has been part of the Victorian Department of Justice and Regulation through the Service, Strategy and Reform Division.

Governance
The NCIS is managed by the Victorian Department of Justice and Regulation and governed by a Board of Management comprised of Coronial, Public Health, and rotating jurisdictional representatives from Australian States and Territories and New Zealand.

Funding for the NCIS is provided annually from core funding agencies:


 * Australian State/Territory Justice Departments
 * New Zealand Ministry of Justice
 * Commonwealth Department of Health
 * Commonwealth Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development
 * Safe Work Australia
 * Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
 * Australian Institute of Criminology

Further revenue is generated through user pay fees for access to data by subscription and the NCIS data request service. Annual revenue generated from user pay fees fluctuates each year and can contribute as much as 15% of the NCIS operational budget.

Data Access
It is accessible to death investigators (coroners; forensic, medical, and scientific staff; and police) to assist with death investigation and approved third parties (e.g., researchers).