April 11, 2003

Western Australian Maternity Services Report

In Adelaide yesterday for the Future Birth event. A great day, with an enthusiastic audience and of course, our four terrific speakers. I heard exciting plans being formulated for International Midwives Day, including an idea to set up a waterbirth pool, birth ball and other props on the steps of Parliament House so that a mock birth could be staged. That should draw attention to midwifery and be good for the evening television news broadcasts!

We also heard that the Western Australian Government has just released its blueprint for the maternity services in that State. The issue of major concern, in an overall positive statement, is the proposal that community midwifery services should be overseen by a Director of Nursing at a maternity hospital. This is completely unacceptable, as it will set up the possibility that constraints could be imposed on these services and that the midwives working for community based programs could lose their autonomy. It is amazing that a Government would propose such a scheme for midwives when they would never consider requiring that the work of obstetricians, who also work in the community, (and whose services are also financially underwritten to a large extent by the Government) should be overseen by a Director of Obstetrics at a hospital. There will be a lot of work to be done to have this requirement removed from the blueprint, but I have no doubt that there is enough energy amongst West Australian midwives to make it happen.

Today we are in Melbourne, expecting lots of fun with a large crowd of midwives. Tonight we will fly on to Launceston.......

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