Tag: women’s health
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Keeping Mothers at the Centre: Woman-Centred Postpartum Care, Evidence and Sex-Specific Health Data
Women Speak Australia has made a submission to the Senate Select Committee on Women’s Health, examining postpartum care, maternal health and mortality, contraception, sex-specific health data, and the monitoring of medical devices used in women’s healthcare. Our submission begins with a straightforward principle: the woman who was pregnant remains the patient after birth. The end…
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National Standards Are Clear: Midwifery in Australia Remains Woman-Centred
Midwifery practice in Australia is governed by national law and professional standards that place women at the centre of care. The primary legislation is the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, which establishes the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). The NMBA’s Midwife standards for practice (2018) explicitly state that the standards “are framed within…