1

Ms Kerry Peart, Coordinator Graduate Diploma of Midwifery, University of Ballarat (VIC)

2

Ms Rebecca Smith (SA)

3

Ms Elizabeth McCall, Byron District Hospital midwives (NSW)

4

Dr William Boyd (QLD)

5

Dr B R Pridmore, Director, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital (SA)

6

Ms Kym Boyes, CNM Maternity Unit, Bunbury Regional Hospital (WA)

7

Ms Jenny Parratt (VIC)

Supplementary Information

• Papers: Victorian Home Births 1995-1998 and Partnership in Practice - An Evaluation, Parratt J & Sprague A, received 22.9.99

8

Dr Andrew Child, Director, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, King George V Memorial Hospital, (NSW)

9

Ms Adrienne Palmer (VIC)

10

Ms S A Ridler (NSW)

11

Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (VIC)

12

Ms Kerri Newman (QLD)

13

Ms Jane Svensson, Health Education Coordinator, Royal Hospital for Women, (NSW)

14

Australian College of Midwives Incorporated - Victorian Branch (VIC)

15

Dr Kathleen Fahy and Dr Karen Lane (VIC)

Tabled at public hearing 15.9.99

• Meta-analysis of the Safety of Home Birth, Olsen O

• Outcomes of 11,788 planned home births attended by certified nurse-midwives, Anderson RE and Murphy PA

• Perinatal death associated with planned home birth in Australia, BMJ 27 Feb 99

16

Royal Women’s Hospital Health Service District - Brisbane (QLD)

17

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (VIC)

Tabled at public hearing 6.9.99

• Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity, Annual Report 1996

Supplementary information

• Correspondence dated 5 October 1999

• Correspondence dated 15 November 1999

18

Dr Ron Chang; Dr Robert Likeman; Dr Steve Mokrzecki; Dr Toni Uptin; Dr Eric Green; Dr David Watson and Dr Phil Moon (QLD)

19

Dr Chris Wilkinson; Dr Deborah Turnbull and Sr Edith Reddin (SA)

20

Ms Robin Payne (VIC)

21

Midwifery Unit Managers, Westmead Hospital (NSW)

22

New England Area Health Service (NSW)

23

Ms Frances M Postma (VIC)

24

Ms Annie Popelier (TAS)

25

Ms Helen McDonald (TAS)

26

Dr Jane Fisher, Lecturer, University of Melbourne (VIC)

27

Ms Susan Ross (NSW)

28

Perinatal Society of Australia & New Zealand (SA)

Tabled at public hearing 7.9.99

• Cochrane News, August 1999 and four articles from The Cochrane Library, Issue 3 1999:

• Patterns of routine antenatal care for low-risk pregnancy, Villar J, Khan-Neelofur D

• Caregiver support for women during childbirth, Hodnett ED

• Episiotomy for vaginal birth, Carroli G, Belizan J, Stamp G

• Active versus expectant management of the third stage of labour, Prendiville WJ, Elbourne D, McDonald S

29

Royal College of Nursing Australia (ACT)

30

Homebirth Network of South Australia (SA)

31

Queensland Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Morbidity and Mortality (QLD)

32

Ms Justine Caines (ACT)

33

Port Augusta and Region Maternity Advisory Group (SA)

34

Division of Women’s Health and Newborn Care - Westmead Hospital (NSW)

35

Dr Donald Clark (WA)

36

Ms Clarissa Cook (TAS)

37

Ms Pauline Green (NSW)

38

NSW Midwives Association (NSW)

39

Ms Catherine Graham-Smith and Ms Athalie Pugh (WA)

40

Ms Carolyn Hastie (NSW)

41

Dr Peter Malavisi (VIC)

42

Ms Fiona Meredith (TAS)

43

Ms Heather Hancock, Senior Lecturer (Midwifery), University of South Australia (SA)

44

Dr Jacqueline Scurlock (WA)

45

Prof Lesley Barclay, Ms Pat Brodie, Ms Sally Tracy - Australian Midwifery Action Project (NSW)

Tabled at public hearing 14.9.99

• Papers: Issues in Midwifery Workforce, Reorganising Australian Maternity Care; Reforming Midwifery - A Discussion Paper on the introduction of Bachelor of Midwifery Programs into Victoria; and an information brochure

46

The Royal Women’s Hospital (VIC)

Supplementary Information

• Comment on qualified and unqualified neonates and Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews, dated 7.9.99

47

Ms Carole Gilmour (VIC)

48

Australian College of Midwives Inc - Goldfields Sub-Branch (WA)

49

Australian Society of Independent Midwives (NSW)

50

Community Based Midwifery Program (WA)

51

Midwifery Practice and Research Centre (NSW)

52

Selangor Private Hospital Maternity Centre (QLD)

53

Australian College of Midwives Inc - SA Branch (SA)

54

Community Health for Adolescents in Need (CHAIN) (NSW)

55

Dr Rosalie Boyce (QLD)

56

Association for Improvement in the Maternity Services (QLD)

Tabled at public hearing 15.9.99

• Copies of AIMS Journal and AIMS Australia with information brochure

57

Brisbane Independent Midwives (QLD)

58

Flinders University, Adelaide - School of Nursing, Midwifery (SA)

59

Mrs and Mr Claire and Bruce Reeler (QLD)

60

Port Pirie Regional Health Service (SA)

61

Midwives Act Lobby Group (SA)

62

Australian College of Midwives - WA Branch (WA)

63

Benevolent Society of New South Wales - Centre for Children (NSW)

64

Geraldton Health Service (WA)

65

Dr Joanna McCubbin (VIC)

66

Ms Monika Geisselbrecht (SA)

67

Orange Base Hospital - Maternity Unit (NSW)

68

The Australian Multiple Birth Association (NSW)

69

Women’s Hospitals Australia and Australian Healthcare Association (ACT)

Tabled at public hearing 27.8.99

• Perinatal Protocols and Guidelines for Management, Women’s and Children’s Hospital Adelaide, 1996; various data and alterations to submission

70

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (VIC)

Tabled at public hearing 8.9.99

• Why are General Practitioners ceasing obstetrics? A study of Victorian GPs, data from Obstetrics Review, and overheads by Dr Kathy Innes

71

Ms Beth McIntosh (QLD)

72

Office of Health Review - Western Australia (WA)

73

Australian College of Midwives - Queensland Branch (QLD)

Tabled at public hearing 15.9.99

• Equity & access to services & choices of place of birth & care provider for indigenous women living in remote communities of far north Queensland; and a brochure on implementing quality care

Supplementary Information

• Model for Funding of Midwifery Care

• Paper ‘Can Midwifery Balance the Budget?’

74

Ms Nicola Galea (TAS)

75

The National Association of Childbirth Educators (NSW)

Supplementary Information

• Correspondence, dated 25 November 1999

76

National Health and Medical Research Council - Health Advisory Committee (ACT)

77

Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia (SA)

Tabled at public hearing 7.9.99

• Data from SA Dept of Human Services

Supplementary Information

• Information on Community Midwifery Program, North Metro CHS, Adelaide, dated 24.9.99

78

Mater Misericordiae Mother’s Hospital (QLD)

Tabled at public hearing 15.9.99

General information pamphlets; clinical activity statistics 1998-99; and the following documents:

• Antenatal Education Program, Mater Mothers’ Private Hospital

• Client Education Programs, Mater Mothers’ (Public) Hospital

• Women’s Health Strategic Plan, Mater Hospitals Brisbane

• Protocol for Shared Antenatal Care, Dec 98

• Annual Clinical Report 1995, Dept of Neonatology

79

Women’s Action Alliance (Australia) Inc (VIC)

80

Birth and Beyond (NSW)

81

Launceston Birth Centre and Australian College of Midwives Accredited Independently Practicing Midwives (TAS)

82

Far North Coast Midwives (NSW)

83

Ms Jennifer Watkins (SA)

84

Birth Matters (SA)

85

Mr Nigel Duncan (QLD)

86

Ms Lois Berry (NSW)

87

Ms Jennifer Quinlan (VIC)

88

Ms Virginia Kelly (VIC)

89

Catholic Health Australia (ACT)

90

Ms Catherine Harris (WA)

91

Team Midwifery Consumer Participation Group, John Hunter Hospital (NSW)

92

The Maternity Coalition Inc (VIC)

93

Central Coast Midwives Association (NSW)

94

Home Midwifery Association (QLD)

Tabled at public hearing 15.9.99

• Information on electronic fetal monitoring, homebirth, midwifery care versus obstetrical management, homebirth ongoing midwifery education program

• Report of the Working Party on Homebirths and Alternative Birth Centres, NHMRC, Nov 1987

• Extracts from Compensation and Professional Indemnity in Health Care, A Final Report, Nov 1995

• Appropriate Birth Care in Industrialised Countries, Wagner M

• Pursuing the Birth Machine, Wagner M

95

National Council of Single Mothers and their Children Inc (SA)

96

Ms Maureen Ryan (NSW)

97

Department of Health and Aged Care - Commonwealth (ACT)

Tabled at public hearing 27.8.99

• Ultrasound: More Harm than Good, by Marsden Wagner

Supplementary Information

• Response to questions from hearing 27 August, dated 23.9.99

98

Ms Julie Brennan (NSW)

99

South Australian Independent Midwives Association (SA)

100

National Association of Specialist Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (QLD)

Tabled at public hearing 6.9.99

• Patient demand for Caesarean Section, by Cotzias C and Fisk N

101

Associate Professor Karen Simmer, Flinders Medical Centre (SA)

102

Australian College of Midwives Inc (VIC)

103

Keep the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Delivering Community Action Group (SA)

104

Central Sydney Area Health Service (NSW)

105

Ms Anne Thacker (QLD)

106

Dr Dawn Rayner-Brosnan (TAS)

107

The International College of Spiritual Midwifery (VIC)

108

Flinders Medical Centre - Women’s and Children’s Health Division (SA)

Supplementary Information

• Clarification by Prof Mashall re: MBS and caesarean section dated 21.9.99

109

NSW Pregnancy and Newborn Services Network and Centre for Perinatal Health Services Research (NSW)

Tabled at public hearing 14.9.99

• National Public Health Information Development Plan, AIHW

• Care around Preterm Birth: Clinical Practice Guidelines (Dec 1996) and A Guide for Parents (Feb 1997), NHMRC

• Extracts from Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth, eds Chalmers I, Enkin M, Keirse MJNC

Supplementary information

• Recommendations from previous reviews of maternity services

• Supplementary articles concerning medical and health economics; guidelines, evidence-based practice, quality and audit; place of birth; medical practice and indemnity issues and UK childbirth inquiries

• Families First, NSW Government

110

Dr Sarah Buckley (QLD)

Tabled at public hearing 15.9.99

Additional papers:

• Perinatal origin of adult self-destructive behaviour, Jacobson B

• Labour - Your hormones are your helpers, Buckley S

• Wattle Park House Home Birth Statistics 1981-1999

• The Place of Birth: Managing Change in Midwifery Practice, Guilliland K

• Birth trauma and birth injury as contributing factors to subsequent criminal behaviour and violence, Haire D

111

Royal District Nursing Service (VIC)

Tabled at public hearing 6.9.99

• Home Healthcare

112

Women’s Electoral Lobby South Australia (SA)

113

Mrs Julie Cronin (WA)

114

Mrs Jean Boer (NSW)

115

Ms Sharon Mulheron (QLD)

116

Mrs Rashelle Szoke (QLD)

117

Ms Susan Burnette (NSW)

118

Ms Claire Brassard (QLD)

119

Ms Kez BenAvi (QLD)

120

Ms Penny Burrows (NSW)

121

Ms Angela De Palma (QLD)

122

Ms Elissa Freeman (QLD)

123

Ms Lisa Joseph (NSW)

124

Ms Joanne Davies (WA)

125

Ms Jane Pearce (NSW)

126

Ms Helen Semler (TAS)

127

Ms Mary Reilly (VIC)

128

Ms Sharlene Fritz (QLD)

129

Ms Frances Blines (QLD)

130

Ms Francesca Lejeune (QLD)

131

Mr Daniel Prokop (QLD)

132

Ms Dierdre Bowman (QLD)

133

Ms Isabelle K O’Toole (TAS)

134

Ms Jane McCammon (NSW)

135

Mr Arthur & Mrs Santina Sannen (NSW)

136

Sr Alison Bush (NSW)

137

Mrs Michelle Green (SA)

138

Mrs Suzette Curtis (TAS)

139

Ms Julia Williams (QLD)

140

Mr Ian Gittus (QLD)

141

Ms Maria Mark (NSW)

142

Ms Nicole Foder-Jones (NSW)

143

Mr and Mrs Rob and Robyn Lamb (NSW)

144

Anu (QLD)

145

Centre for the Study of Mothers’ and Children’s Health - La Trobe University (VIC)

146

Australian Health Insurance Association (ACT)

Tabled at public hearing 27.8.99

• Member Support program, Maternity Options Package

Supplementary information

• Number of obstetricians in SA and Victoria dated 8 October 1999

147

Mr and Mrs John and Karen Wade (QLD)

148

Regional and General Paediatric Society (VIC)

149

Ms Michele King (TAS)

150

Royal North Shore Hospital - Hospital Based Midwives (NSW)

151

Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital (WA)

152

Homebirth International Australia (NSW)

153

Maternity Alliance (NSW)

• Supplementary submission dated 8 September 1999

154

Professor Marie Chamberlain and Ms Jannine van der Klei, The University of Sydney (NSW)

Supplementary information

• Responses to questions from public hearing dated 14 October 1999

155

King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women (WA)

Tabled at public hearing 8.9.99

• Clinical Practice Guidelines

156

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ACT)

157

Homebirth Australia Inc (NSW)

158

Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Division of Paediatrics (NSW)

159

Ms Marina Begolo (QLD)

160

Women’s Health Queensland Wide Inc (QLD)

161

Coalition for Woman-Centred Birth (NSW)

162

Australian Society of Anaesthetists (NSW)

Supplementary information

• Material addressing epidural analgsia; research into obstetric anaesthesia and fees for obstetric anaesthesia services dated 14 October 1999

163

Department of Human Services - Victoria (VIC)

164

Women’s Electoral Lobby Australia (ACT)

165

Team Midwives John Hunter Hospital (NSW)

166

Queensland Health (QLD)

Tabled at public hearing 15.9.99

• Queensland Health corporate presentation, 15 September 1999

• Mothers & Babies: An evidence based synthesis of Queensland Health endorsed documents to guide the development of public sector services for mothers and neonates, August 1998

• Maternal Health Services in Aboriginal Communities: A clinical needs assessment of five communities and A framework for service enhancement, February 1998

Supplementary information

• Maternity Services Review, Phase One 1998-1999

• Maternity Services: Future Diection 1999-2000, Phases Two and Three

• Reponse to questions on notice from public hearing dated 15 September 1999

167

Mrs Sharon Harwood (QLD)

168

Victorian Health Services Commissioner (VIC)

169

Mildura Base Hospital (VIC)

170

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - National Perinatal Statistics Unit (NSW)

Supplementary information

• Women’s role and satisfaction in the decision to have a caesarean section, Turnbull D et al, MJA 1999 received 2.9.99

171

Birthplace Support Group (WA)

Tabled at public hearing 8.9.99

• Papers: Birth in the Warburton Region; Traditional Aboriginal Birthing Issues; and Doula Research Application

172

Health Rights Commission (QLD)

173

Australian College of Midwives Inc - Northern Territory Branch (NT)

174

Danila Dilba Medical Service (NT)

175

Australian Medical Association (ACT)

176

Nursing Mothers’ Association of Australia (VIC)

177

NSW Health Department (NSW)

Supplementary information

• Alternative Birthing Services Program

178

Dr Kevin Barham (VIC)

179

Health Department of Western Australia (WA)

Tabled at public hearing 8.9.99

• Your Birthing Choice; and WA Hospital data

Supplementary information

• Responses to question on notice from public hearing dated 8 September 1999

180

Ms Katrina Maranik (NSW)

181

Health Care Complaints Commission (NSW)

182

Northern Territory Health Services (NT)

183

Mr and Mrs John and Louise Moulang (NSW)

184

Birth Support Bendigo (VIC)

185

Ms Regina Gleeson (VIC)

186

Port Hedland Regional Hospital - Maternal Services (WA)

187

Ms Coral Eden (VIC)

188

Dr Glen Barker (VIC)

189

Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons (VIC)

190

Ms Sarah Prosser (ACT)

Mercy Hospital for Women Vic - Obstetric audit statistics and copy of a paper Vaginal Breech Delivery: A Lost Art; Targett CS

Dated 7.9.99

Senator Trish Crossin - Supplementary information and a copy of The NT Review of Birthing Services Implementation Status Report - October 1992

Dated 22.9.99