Pregnancy, Birth And Beyond

The evidence is in, the policies exist yet 92% of Australian women do not have the best form of maternity care - continuity of woman-centred care near where they live. Instead they must make do with fragmented care with a string of unknown clinicians, even though continuity of care has been proven to give the best outcomes to mothers and babies. The benefits are many, but the biggest one is that your baby is more likely to survive pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period if you have continuity of woman-centred care.Since 2010 Australian has had a national plan to improve maternity services, but delivery of our health services is so inefficient it has been largely ignored all that time.The good news is that national Standard 2: Partnering with Consumers requires all health services to partner with women and families in designing and delivering health services.Yay! We have a role to play and a job to do. Find out about this story peppered with passionate characters, and what you can do in this podcast.With