Demand for midwives?
Hospital boards in New Zealand should employ domiciliary midwives if there is a demand for home births in their particular area, according to the Nurses’ Society of New Zealand. The society’s national director, Mr David Wills, said that the present system of having domiciliary midwives paid through the Health Department was unsatisfactory. This meant that nurses
practising as domiciliary midwives had a totally inadequate income, he said. “In some areas, there is a small demand for the home birth option. If boards are to accommodate this demand, they must employ domiciliary midwives,” he said. “Otherwise, the number of practising domiciliary midwives will continue to decline, leaving no alternative to hospital births,” Mr Wills said.
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