Contacts

WA Branch President: Debbie Slater
Email: debslater@primusonline.com.au


WA Branch 
PO Box 90
LEEDERVILLE WA 6902

Implementing NMAP in in WA

Launched in August 2004 'Implementing NMAP in in WA" proposes access to the option of primary or caseload midwifery care in both WA hospital and community settings for healthy women, presenting the advantages for women, their families and communities, as well as many others for the WA government, the health budget and midwifery profession.

A Positive Solution to Maternity Service Problems in WA: Implementing the National Maternity Action Plan (NMAP) in WA

Many WA organisations have endorsed this proposal listed HERE

If your group or organisation would like to endorse Implementing NMAP in WA please send an email to midwifedenise@bigpond.com with your name and address stating "We hereby endorse 'Implementing NMAP in WA'".

If you would you would like to personally or as a group encourage the WA government to act on this proposal see

Actions for Women-Centred Maternity Services in WA

Petition seeking local midwifery care options across WA

Links

• WA Briefing paper
  
  
• March on Parliament 5th May 2005
  
  
• NEWS RELEASE - Sunday 12th September 2004
  MIDWIFERY CARE SOLUTION TO OBSTETRIC SHORTAGES
  Women and their partners, and Western Australian taxpayers, are being short changed in maternity services. Instead of high quality integrated maternity services offering the choice of either primary midwifery or obstetric care, maternity services are failing to deliver real options of care. See the full release here...
   
• Hon Dr Carmen Lawrence MP Shadow Minister for Reconciliation, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Affairs; the Arts and Status of Women, Federal Member for Fremantle
   
• Report on the NMAP launch in Western Australia

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