April 12, 2003

Midwifery workforce numbers

Melbourne yesterday and another Future Birth event - wonderful day!

Launceston in Tasmania is today’s venue. This state is the only one in Australia where the Nurses Registration Board (who are responsible for registering midwives) do an audit of each registration to ensure that the midwife is actually working. Many midwives retain their registration even though they are not employed in midwifery and this has been one of the confounding variables that has made determining workforce numbers in Australia difficult. In Tasmania, before they started doing these audits, the workforce here was apparently about 1800. After the first audit, this number dropped to around 800 which is a much more realistic figure.

If all Australian Registration Boards undertook similar audits we would have a much better idea of the actual numbers of working midwives across the country. At present there are around 70,000 midwives on the books, yet probably only around 8,000 actually working. Forward planning estimates, compiled through detailed studies of workforce needs have concluded that we need between 12,000 and 14,000 midwives to staff our maternity services properly. However, whenever midwives complain that there are not enough to adequately fill the workforce needs, they are often told that “you have 70,000 registered midwives available - all you need to do is get them all back to work”. An accurate picture is therefore desperately needed. The Tasmanians can teach the rest of us a thing ir two about how to go about this urgent task.

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