February 05, 2003

Campaign for maternity reform tastes success

I have just heard that things are hotting up in NSW regarding the reform of maternity services. Having ti face the electorate in 7 weeks focuses the Government and its Ministers very clearly and Craig Knowles has had some shocking experiences with irate women demanding better maternity care in recent rallies in Bulli and Camden. He seems to be developing a phobia about strollers containing babies!

I am told that NSW Health will implement the NMAP in the Hunter and Illawarra Area Health Services as the starting point. This will mean that women in those areas will be able to access midwifery care and give birth where they choose - hospital or home and funded directly by the Health Service. Central Sydney Area Health Service (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital is its flagship maternity hospital) was to be included but was dropped when they excluded home births from their proposed service.

This is a major breakthrough and one that has come about through intense and clever lobbying by the consumers and midwives involved in The Maternity Coalition. They have put together such a strong case for reform that to ignore it would be foolhardy, as the political parties are beginning to discover.

There will be more news soon, but the revolution is certainly underway. It is just like the “olden days” when we were struggling to get rooming in and father at births - it has taken a long time to get consumers on the march again but they are falling into step right now!

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