Author:
Tracy Sally K,Hartz Donna,Nicholl Michael,McCann Yvonne,Latta Deborah
Abstract
Maternity services in Australia are in urgent need of
change. During the last 10 years several reviews
have highlighted the need to provide more continuity
of care for women in conjunction with the rationalisation
of services. One solution may lie in the
development of new integrated systems of care
where primary-level maternity units offer midwiferyled
care and women are transferred into perinatal
centres to access tertiary-level obstetric technology
and staff when required.
This case study outlines the introduction of
caseload midwifery into an Area Health Service in
metropolitan Sydney. Our objective is to explore the
concept of caseload midwifery and the process of
implementing the first midwifery-led unit in NSW
within an integrated service network. The midwifeled
unit is a small but growing phenomenon in many
countries.1 However, the provision of ?continuity?
and ?woman-centred? midwifery care involves radical changes to conventional hospital practice.
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