Call for revamped training scheme
PA Wellington A revamped training scheme was needed to solve the critical shortage of midwives in New Zealand, a midwives spokesman, Ms Susan Taylor, has said. Since 1980, nurses who wanted to become midwives had to complete an advanced diploma of nursing at a technical institute. Most were forced to do the year-long course on just a student’s bursary.
As a consequence, the number of new midwives each year had dropped from 120 in 1979 to 21 in 1983. Midwives wanted the training system changed to encourage more nurses to go into midwifery, Ms Taylor said. “In the general sector of nursing they can deal with shortages by cutting hospital admissions — but we cannot stop women having babies.”
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