Women wishing to use the new centre can self-refer via the East Metropolitan Health Service website. Australia's first midwife-led maternity service at a public hospital, worth A$2.6m, was opened by ...

Most women give birth in public hospitals, seeing whichever midwife or doctor is rostered on. But research shows seeing the ...

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Staffing shortages are putting pressure on the quality of care and on post-natal length of stay, leading to increasing health complications for mothers and their babies. In August 2023, midwives ...

The NT government contract was subcontracted to Darwin midwife Claire Marks in September last year to run a private practice midwifery service after the NT’s only private maternity ward closed in 2025 ...