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Core midwifery: the challenge continues

Abstract:

To meet the requirements of Section 88 (Ministry of Health, 2002), South Auckland Health, Middlemore is about to significantly change the way it delivers primary care and as a service provider will have to restructure its services. For Middlemore and the midwives it employs, Section 88 will change the way midwives work. It will require fewer core staff and more midwives able, and willing, to work in a model offering continuity of midwifery carer. As a group of midwives who are part of a service provider that before July 1st 2002 provided a large primary care service, we believe our voice in the midwifery profession can only add to the richness of who we are; as New Zealand midwives and as members of the New Zealand College of Midwives.

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