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SERIOUS changes to the maternity system are needed to protect babies during birth, Parliament has been told. Compulsory supervision of first-year midwives and a national data unit collecting information on all births are among recommendations from the health select committee, which presented a report yesterday. The report was in response to a petition presented last year by The Good Fight a group of women whose babies died or were left disabled because of problems during birth. The group called for immediate and wide-ranging change in the maternity system. In an unusually detailed response to a petition, the report urges changes, saying serious work needs to be done to improve some aspects of the New Zealand maternity services. Waikato couple Linda and Robert Barlow, whose son died during a delivery that nearly killed Mrs Barlow also, said the report was a wake-up call. Many of the recommendations were common sense, including setting up a database and enforcing supervision for midwifery graduates, Mr Barlow said. The reports recommended changes include making it a requirement, rather than an expectation, that all new midwives complete the College of Midwives first year in practice programme. The committee said it had heard anecdotal evidence that births in which the baby died or was hurt often involved newly qualified midwives working without sufficient experience or support. The committee chairman, National MP Paul Hutchison, said yesterday: Weve made a pretty clear and strong suggestion there that midwives, for at least a year after graduation, should be subject to . . . mentoring and very close supervision. The report also urges the Government to set up an independent national unit to collect information on all births. Currently, information is collected consistently only when a baby is stillborn or dies during or shortly after birth. The Good Fight spokeswoman Jenn Hooper, whose daughter Charley was left severely disabled when her resuscitation at birth was bungled, said a database would be able to capture information about birth-related dis-
elle Williams, on Saturday night in Britain. He had been given the news earlier in the day that his father, Eddie, had died after suffering from leukaemia for a decade. He did not tell Williams or any of the other contestants. He has now returned to Christchurch, accompanied by his wife, model Zoe Hobbs, and NZPA his brother Scott.
Dancing on: Brendan Cole with Michelle Williams on Strictly Come Dancing. Photo: BBC
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