When I have written my response I will post it on ozmidwifery. I will do
this before sending it to the senate so I can benefit from your critique.
If there is a way we can improve or responses by being coordinated then I am
happy for that.
Dr. Kathleen Fahy
Associate Professor
Midwifery Co-ordinator
University Southern Queensland
07 46312377
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-----Original Message-----
From: Heather Gulliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:50
To: sue
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Senate inquiry
Hi All,
Please note my post today re this Senate Inquiry was written a couple
of days ago and I couldn't get on line at the time to send it off. Hence
it will seem somewhat ignorant now the informative posts have been
written. Thanks to those who have followed through and given the info on
the areas to be investigated and how (to whom) to make submissions.
Is there some way we could co-ordinate our responses??? I'll try and see
that the word is passed around to some consumer groups and our local
homebirth and ACMI branch is aware.
Once again do recognise my prior post was intended for the list some
days ago.
Cheers,
Heather.
sue wrote:
> 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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