Midwifery
Sir,—Dr Peter Tapsell ignored the Nurses Amendment Bill in the article about his views on women’s health issues (September 30). As a member of the select committee considering the bill, he should be aware of the effect it will have on the status of midwifery in New Zealand and the rights of parents to choose the place of birth for their children. Specialist midwives, who are not also general nurses, trained overseas, will no longer be able to register as domiciliary midwives. The seriousness of this is shown by the following figures: last year 171 midwives registered in New Zealand and only 24 were trained here. The peculiar situation where a woman qualified to run a British maternity hospital could not practice here as a domiciliary midwife shows that a widwife’s capability should be assessed on its merits. This bill should not pass unchallenged through Parliament. — Yours, etc., ALISON LOCKE, Co-ordinator, Christchurch branch Home Birth Association. October 2, 1983.
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