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Editorial:The Maternity Benefit Tribunal

Abstract:

...Two years on from the introduction of the Nurses Amendment Act, we still face many challenges in trying to provide a midwifery service which meets women's needs, and of which the midwifery profession can be proud. The Maternity Benefit Tribunal was clearly a challenge from the medical profession responding to competition for increasing numbers of women choosing the services of independent midwives. The New Zealand Medical Association put a case for a general increase in the maternity benefit but also argued that midwives should be on a separate schedule because their service was different to that of doctors - the doctors being more highly trained and able to deal with all the problems!

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consumer partnership, ICM, maternity schedule of fees, Nurses Amendment Act