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Maternity services review

Submitted by Penny on Fri, 12/09/2008 - 11:58am.

maternity services | women

This week, the Federal Government launched the discussion paper ‘Improving Maternity Services in Australia', the first step in a review into maternity services in Australia.

Despite international research showing that access to contiuous midwife care can lead to savings in health dollars as well as better outcomes for women and babies, as midwives cannot currently access Medicare rebates, many women are not able to chose continuous midwife care throughout their pregnancy.

According to the Federal Government: