8/6/2019 Parliament gets message on changes to make birth safer

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Parliament getsmessage onchanges tomake births saferKate NewtonHEALTH

Living with consequences: Campaigner Jenn Hooper with son Zak and daughter Charley, who is severely disabled becauseher resuscitation at birth was bungled. Photo: WAIKATO REGIONAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS

SERIOUS changes to the mater-nity system are needed to protectbabies during birth, Parliamenthas been told.

Compulsory supervision offirst-year midwives and a nationaldata unit collecting informationon all births are among recom-

mendations from the health selectcommittee, which presented a re-port yesterday.

The report was in response to apetition presented last year by TheGood Fight a group of womenwhose babies died or were left dis-abled because of problems duringbirth.

The group called for immedi-ate and wide-ranging change inthe maternity system.

In an unusually detailed res-ponse to a petition, the reporturges changes, saying seriouswork needs to be done to improvesome aspects of the New Zealandmaternity services.

Waikato couple Linda andRobert Barlow, whose son diedduring a delivery that nearlykilled Mrs Barlow also, said thereport was a wake-up call.

Many of the recommendationswere common sense, including set-ting up a database and enforcingsupervision for midwifery gradu-

ates, Mr Barlow said.The reports recommended

changes include making it a re-quirement, rather than an expec-tation, that all new midwives com-plete the College of Midwives firstyear in practice programme.

The committee said it hadheard anecdotal evidence thatbirths in which the baby died orwas hurt often involved newlyqualified midwives workingwithout sufficient experience orsupport.

The committee chairman,National MP Paul Hutchison, saidyesterday: Weve made a prettyclear and strong suggestion therethat midwives, for at least a yearafter graduation, should be subjectto . . . mentoring and very closesupervision.

The report also urges the Gov-ernment to set up an independentnational unit to collect inform-ation on all births. Currently, in-formation is collected consistently

only when a baby is stillborn ordies during or shortly after birth.

The Good Fight spokeswomanJenn Hooper, whose daughterCharley was left severely disabledwhen her resuscitation at birthwas bungled, said a databasewould be able to capture infor-mation about birth-related dis-

abilities and near-misses, whichwere now left out of reporting.

Mrs Hooper said the group washappy with the report, which alsorecommended better support forfamilies whose babies died or

were damaged and greater collab-oration between GPs, obstetric-ians and midwives. We thank theselect committee for taking usvery, very seriously.

College of Midwives chief exec-utive Karen Guilliland said thecollege welcomed the review,although most of its recommenda-

tions were already in place or be-ing adopted.

John Tait, chairman of the Col-lege of Obstetricians and Gynae-cologists, said the college stronglysupported a births data unit and

greater collaboration.Theres been a lot of animosity

[but] its improving a great deal.Dr Hutchison said he was very

hopeful the Government wouldadopt the reports recommenda-tions.

A lot of what we are suggest-ing could be encompassed by the

quality initiative that the Govern-ment already has.

Health Minister Tony Ryallsaid the ministry had a majorpiece of work under way to im-prove maternity services.

That included developing asafety and quality programme formaternity services, protocols forcare and emergency transfers be-tween clinicians, development ostandardised, electronically avail-able maternity notes, and bettercollection of maternal and new-born information.

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CONDARY school principalspreparing to send pupils home

morrow as 16,000 teachers beginionwide rolling strikes, just

eks out from NCEA exams.Pay talks between the Post Pri-ry Teachers Association and

Education Ministry brokewn again yesterday. PPTAmbers are refusing to teach

000 year 9 pupils tomorrow and000 year 11 pupils on Thursday.PPTA president Kate Gainsford

firmed yesterday that memb-covered by the secondary

chers collective agreementuld not supervise pupils.Headmasters have asked thatents and guardians keep affec-pupils at home.

Prime Minister John Key saidGovernments offer to teachers

s a good one and he believedents were on its side.The only people that suffer as

esult of lasting industrial actionl be those youngsters that are

ected and we believe thechers have rejected an offer

t, frankly, was a good offer andy should have accepted, he

d.This is the second time theTA has walked away from

gotiations since bargainingrted in May.The strike action comes justeks out from the first NCEAms, scheduled to start on Nov-

ber 11.Heretaunga College principaluce Hart sent a letter to parentsd guardians of year 9 pupils yes-day.We have no means of super-ing the students and we are

king parents to keep year 9dents at home for this day ondnesday, the letter said.Wellington College headmasterger Moses said he would send aer home with his 270 year 9

pils today advising that no for-l education would be available

morrow.Well be requesting parents

and caregivers to keep pupils athome. If this cannot be done welllook to organise supervision ofsome kind for limited numbers of

pupils using non-PPTA staff.Secondary Principals Council

chairwoman Julia Davidson saidprincipals had told her they didnot have enough non-union staff tocope with supervising pupils affec-ted by industrial action.

When negotiations started thePPTA asked for a 4 per cent salaryincrease plus improved conditionssuch as caps on class sizes, moreprofessional development, an ex-tra 1 per cent KiwiSaver employercontribution, laptops and immu-nisation against contagious dis-eases.

The PPTA walked away lastmonth from an offer of a 1.5 percent rise, plus a further 1 per centthe following year, and went onstrike for a day.

Yesterday, the ministry said ithad offered an immediate 0.5 percent increase and a further 1.9 percent increase next September, aswell as an immediate one-off $1000payment.

The PPTA has walked awayfrom an excellent offer for sec-ondary teachers, education work-force group manager Fiona Mc-Tavish said.

Ms Gainsford said teachers feltas though they were being muc-ked around by a government thatdid not value teachers.

If what we are seeing from theother side is the dizzy limit oftheir thinking around valuingeducation then there needs to be arethink, she said.

The ministry had simply res-huffled its earlier offers, and hadmisled the union by promising ithad a meaningful new offer.

Rolling strikes across yearlevels would continue next weekand through to early December ifan agreement was not reached.

Mr Key said teachers wereasking for more than workerssuch as nurses and police, and MsMcTavish said their expectationswere not realistic.

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