Latest govt. reports
- Expanded role for midwives recommended in report Media interview re report below: Report recommendations include expanding Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to include qualified midwives.
- Improving maternity services in Australia
Maternity Services Review by Rosemary Bryant, Australia's Chief Nurse. Released Feb 21 2009
Featured review/Professional organisations
- Midwife-led versus other models of care for childbearing women - Marie Hatem, Jane Sandall, Declan Devane, Hora Soltani, Simon Gates
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 1, 2009. (Review last assessed as up to date in May 2008). - Australian College of Midwives
- NSW Midwives Association
- International Confederation of Midwives
- ANMC - National Competency Standards for the Midwife
- Australian Breastfeeding Association
- Australian Lactation Consultants' Association
- Royal College of Midwives
Scholarly journals for Midwifery
Dictionary/Websites
- Balliere's midwives' dictionary
- Women deliver Deals with issues of maternal and newborn mortality worlwide. Resources and advocacy.
- Women's health specialist library
- Breastfeeding Gold standard consumer information from HealthInsite
- Center for Breastfeeding Information (La Leche League)
- World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action
- Intute: Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health UK web resources for education and research.
- Education for childbirth by Gayle L Reidmann, Nurse Midwife. A chapter in the open access scholarly website: Global Library of Women's Medicine
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