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Forum Overview


Maternity Choices Australia (was: Maternity Coalition), in partnership with the Queensland Centre for Mothers and Babies and Health Consumers Queensland hosted the Metro North Perinatal Health and Maternity Services Forum in late March 2014. 

Over 120 people attended the Forum, including women, their partners and babies, healthcare providers and policy makers. The Forum provided women and healthcare providers with information about services that support women’s physical and emotional health during the perinatal period as well as providing an opportunity for participants to identify service gaps and explore strategies for improvement. The consumer’s voice was strongly represented by mothers sharing their experiences of maternity care in Metro North Brisbane. 
In attendance were the Queensland Minister for Health, Hon. Lawrence Springborg, State Members of Parliament (Kerry Millard, Member for Sandgate, Trevor Ruthenberg, Member for Kallangur and Dale Shuttleworth, Member for Ferny Grove), Malcolm Stamp CBE, Chief Executive of the Metro North Hospital and Health Service (MNHHS), Dr Richard Kennedy, Executive Director, Women’s and Newborns’ Services, MNHHS and Jeff Cheverton, Deputy CEO of the Metro North Brisbane Medicare Local. The Forum was made possible by a grant from the Medicare Local.

Issues discussed included the benefits associated with women accessing continuity of care during pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatally, and the ways in which women can access this model of care in Metro North. Other issues discussed included services that are available for women who have additional needs during the perinatal period, as well as services supporting women’s health during the first 12 months after birth.

Some of the recommendations arising from the Forum include:

  •   Consensus on and consistent use of ‘Continuity of Carer’ definition

  •   Credentialing of Eligible Private Practice Midwives for intrapartum care at all Metro North HHS facilities

  • More all risk MGPs and birth centres at all facilities that do not discriminate based on women’s geographic location and ‘risk’ status

  • Educating GPs, women and families about models of care available and the benefits of continuity

  • Consumer engagement at all levels of service design, delivery and evaluation, including consumer involvement in development of Metro North HHS Women’s Services Strategic Plan 

Maternity Coalition will prepare a brief report summarising the feedback from the forum and discuss these recommendations with the Metro North Hospital and Health Service. 

Presentations:

Hon Lawrence Springborg - Part 1
Hon Lawrence Springborg - Part 2
Malcolm Stamp CBE - CE MNHHS
Melissa Fox - Health Consumers QLD
Bec Waqanikalou - Maternity Choices Aust
Christine Percy - Friends of the Birth Centre
Dr Yvette Miller - Part 1
Dr Yvette Miller - Part 2
Deb Spink - Peachtree Perinatal Wellness
Yvonne Hilditch - Consumer
Prof Sue Kruske - QCMB
Wyomie Robertson - Consumer

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