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Jan Rivers's avatar

There is the Midwifery Council's scope of practice that excludes the words woman(en) (except in the te reo version) and mother and delivers services not to women or mothers but to 'whānau who are planning a pregnancy, pregnant, birthing, and postnatal'. https://midwiferycouncil.health.nz/Public/10.-Aotearoa-Midwifery-Project/Aotearoa-Midwifery-Project-Scope-of-Practice.aspx There was a second round of consultation that finished a year ago and which had not been reported back except to certain insiders. But just this month there has been an announcement that the new scope of practice has been adopted and will come into force in July next year. There are many other problems. The scope of practice is a legal document that describes the practice of midwives but this doesn't do that. The previous version of the scope of practice was supported by only 1 of 14 Midwifery organisations. The feedback was utterly scathing. But nothing changed. No feedback report was released for this second iteration and yet it was hardly likely to have been more positive. It provides services to whanau rather than women in direct conflict with the Health and Disability Acts provisions about informed consent where medical services are delivered to individuals. https://www.midwiferycouncil.health.nz/common/Uploaded%20files/eMidpoint/eMidpoint%20November%202023.pdf

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JenT's avatar

This is awful... Trampling all over women again... I fear for my daughter

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