Midwives’ pay
Sir, — Nurses have received well-deserved pay increases. Doctors have received increases in maternity benefits. Again, the poor sisters of the maternity system, the domiciliary midwives have been forgotten. A domiciliary' midwife has at least seven years training but can only earn, on a full caseload, $lO,OOO to $ll,OOO a year. She is on call seven days a week, 24 hours a day with no penal rates and no provision for holidays. By comparison, a junior enrolled nurse with one year’s training earns $15,000. A domiciliary midwife’s salary should be equivalent to a hospital charge midwife, earning at least $26,200 a year. In Christchurch there is One domiciliary midwife. Demands for her services have increased by 50 per cent this year, with 100 families choosing to have home births. These people are grateful that the midwife is sustained by her belief in her work and support offered by the Home Birth Association. — Yours, etc., ALISON LOCKE, Co-ordinator, Christchurch Home Birth Association. December 21, 1985.
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Press, 24 December 1985, Page 16
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