Re: [ozmidwifery] End of Caseload at The Angliss

[Sally Williams]

Hi Dawn,   This is really bad news. It's amazing what excuses they come up with to stop something successful in it's tracks, bit like the tall poppy syndrome. Midwifery at Monash is going through difficulties as well as the powers that be want to cut our maternity beds from 47 to 32, without capping our bookings of course. That also means shedding approx 22 EFT!! Who said there is a shortage of midwives?   WE do do team  midwifery at Clayton, but it doesn't really work very well, the team midwives find themselves working mainly in delivery suite to cope with lack of num,bers(!) so the women really don't get the continuity of carer that this model of care is supposed to create.   Hope you manage to find something that works   Sally ----- Original Message ----- From: Dawn Worgan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:45 AM Subject: [ozmidwifery] End of Caseload at The Angliss With frustration and disapointment I write to tell you our wonderful case load model is to end at the end of september when our current clients have had their babies.It will have been going for 5 years by then and this sad outcome was  not unexpected.The rationalle is to be able to offer somthing like caseload (which no one desputes is the best model)  in a diluted form to all women instead of the elite few!! but nothing in the way of a new model is yet proposed negotiations between hospital, Doctors and Midwives are yet to begin, and a team aproach is whats being put forward, Hence my long winded email, can those of you in teams please let me know the good and bad points you have found so that I can be informed and pass comments on to those who need to know when setting up a new team modelof care. Thankyou Dawn