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Political comment: It's still women & midwives in partnership

Abstract:

After the heady days of the Nurses' Amendment Act, the present climate is depressing, to say the least. But, despite the doom and gloom promoted by the 'targeting' of universal benefits, further restructuring of health and education services and the Employment Contracts Bill, the performance of our midwives at Vision 2000 augers well for the future. Although in the minority at a Forum 'to develop a national frameword for nursing and midwifery education...', midwives were brilliant, they really had it together! They were articulate, politically aware and made valuable contributions to the proceedings and workshops. And finally, in developing the midwifery 'Vision' based on midwifery as a profession in its own right, they made another stride towards control of midwifery destiny. The development of the midwifery Vision was democratically open to all midwives and consumers prepared to come back on Saturday morning. In three hours we had a comprehensive document which was presented to the official 'invited' framework group.

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national midwifery framework, partnership with women