Press Releases

• 08 July 2010 Media Release
  Specialist Doctors Warn Women About Home Birth Dangers (PDF 139kb) you can also view the coverage on channel 10 through their Video Player
  
• 17 January 2010 Media Release
  Australian Obstetricians Say New Study Showing High Home Birth Risks a Warning to Mothers-to-be and Midwives (PDF 131kb)
  
• 29 December 2009 Media Release
  Pregnant women in for a New Year shock - warn specialist obstetricians and gynaecologists (PDF 160kb)
• 18 August 2009 Media Release
  Please Put the Safety of Babies and their Mothers Ahead of Home Birth Ideology: Specialist Doctors (PDF 148kb)
  
• 17 August 2009 Media Release
  Please Don’t Hurt Mothers-to-Be: Doctors Plead with Government (PDF 146kb)
  
• 30 June 2009 Media Release
  Specialist Doctors Call for an Urgent Review of Coroner's Findings into Fatal Home Birth (PDF 152kb)
• 29 June 2009 Media Alert
  A New President Launches a Fresh Direction for Specialist Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (PDF 144kb)
• 25 June 2009 Media Alert
  New Leader of Australian Obstetricians Welcomes Government’s New Maternity Plans with a 'But' (PDF 144kb)
• 31 May 2009 Media Alert
  Specialist Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Congratulate the New AMA President (PDF 188kb)
• 12 May 2009 Media Alert
  Obstetric Safety Net: Women Lose Out From the Budget (PDF 106kb)
• 12 May 2009 Media Alert
  Media Alert: Obstetric Care Comment Post Budget (PDF104kb)
• 7 May 2009 Media Release
  Obstetric Safety Net: Don’t Hurt Patients in the Name of Savings Warn Specialist Doctors (PDF 107Kb)
• 6 April 2009
  Babies and their mothers at risk from home births - say Gynaecologists and Obstetricians (PDF 113Kb)
• 27 February 2009
  Women and babies in remote and regional areas a priority, say leading Gynaecologists and Obstetricians (PDF 112Kb)

Resources

Members are referred to the following resources and are encouraged to contact councillors to discuss these issues.

Paid Parental Leave - Information for Intermediaries (Parents)

• Paid Parental Leave - Information for Intermediaries (Parents)

AMA letter re Obstetric Item Numbers

• Changes to obstetrics items and the extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN)

Maternity Services Report

• Report of the Maternity Services Review February 2009
• NASOG Submission to Maternity Services Review (PDF 39kb)
• Improving Maternity Services in Australia. A Discussion Paper from the Australian Government (PDF 1.43mb)
• Australia's Health 2008: health across the life stages. Part 6 of the biennial health reprot of the Australian institute of Health and Welfare (PDF 41kb)

Models of Care

• Andrew Pesce. Birth Centre/low intervention care models: de-inventing the wheel? (PDF 26kb)
• Hodnett ED, Downe S, Edwards N, Walsh D. Home-like versus conventional institutional settings for birth. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD000012. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000012.pub2 (PDF 424kb)
• Bastian H, Keirse MJ, Lancaster PA. Perinatal death associated with planned home birth in Australia: population based study. BMJ. 1998 Aug 8; 317(7155):384-8 (PDF 342kb)
• Gottvall K, Grunewald C, Waldenström U. Safety of birth centre care: perinatal mortality over a 10-year period.  BJOG. 2004 Jan;111(1):71-8 (PDF180kb)
• Symon A, Winter C, Inkster M, Donnan PT.  Outcomes for births booked under an independent midwife and births in NHS maternity units: matched comparison study. BMJ. 2009 Jun 11; 338:b2060. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2060

Medicare Safety Net

• Inquiry into Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Bill 2009 (513kb)