Senate Community Affairs References Committee
INQUIRY INTO CHILDBIRTH PROCEDURES
The Senate has referred the following matter to the
Senate Community
Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by
30 December 1999.
Childbirth procedures, with particular reference to:
(a) the range and provision of antenatal care services
to ascertain whether
interventions can be minimised through the development
of best practice in
antenatal screening standards;
(b) the variation in childbirth practices between
different hospitals and
different states particularly with respect to the
level of interventions
such as caesarean birth, episiotomy and epidural
anaesthetics;
(c) the variation in such procedures between public
and private patients;
(d) any variations in clinical outcomes associated
with the variation in
intervention rates, including peri-natal and maternal
mortality and
morbidity indicators;
(e) the best practices for safe and effective births
being demonstrated in
particular locations and models of care and the
desirability of more
general application;
(f) early discharge programs, to ensure their
appropriateness;
(g) the adequacy of access, choice, models of care and
clinical outcomes
for rural and remote Australians, for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander
women and for women of non-English speaking
backgrounds;
(h) whether best practice guidelines are desirable,
and, if so, how they
should be developed and implemented;
(i) the adequacy of information provided to expectant
mothers and their
families in relation to the choices for safe practice
available to them;
and
(j) the impact of the new Medicare rebate provided for
complex births,
including the use of the term ‘qualified and
unqualified neonates’ for
funding purposes, and the impact that this has had on
improved patient care
and reduction of average gap payments.
Written submissions are invited and should be
addressed to:
The Secretary
Senate Community Affairs References Committee
Suite S1 59
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Closing date for the receipt of submissions is
6 August 1999.
For further details contact the Committee Secretary,
Phone: (02) 6277 3515,
Fax: (02) 6277 5829.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Comments to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Last reviewed 30 June 1999
© Commonwealth of Australia
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