Providing feedback about your midwife

The New Zealand College of Midwives (NZCOM) sets and actively promotes high standards for midwifery practice. The NZCOM assists midwives to meet these through involvement in midwifery education and the Midwifery Standards Review Process.

Midwifery Standards Review is designed to help the midwife to:

maintain professional standards of practice
reflect on the partnership between women and midwives throughout the childbirth experience using the feedback received from women
think about her work using the NZCOM Standards for Practice as the accepted guiding principles of midwifery care in New Zealand
demonstrate her commitment to ongoing professional development and accountability
examine her practice with midwifery peers and consumers of midwifery services.

Midwives appreciate you taking the time to fill out the anonymous Consumer Feedback form. No information identifying you is collected.Your feedback is for the midwife and the Midwifery Standards Review team – mothers and midwives trained to meet with the midwife to:

review her year’s work
discuss her consumer feedback and statistics
hear the midwife’s reflection on them and her work in relation to the NZCOM Standards and Midwifery Council’s competencies.

To download a consumer feedback form, click here. Forms are available for both hospital and LMC midwives.

Please send the completed form in the stamped addressed envelope provided to:

Midwifery Standards Review Administrator

PO Box 21059, Edgeware

Christchurch 8143

The Administrator collects the forms and sends them to the midwife so she has them to read and reflect on before her review.

Links referenced

Midwifery Standards Review: http://www.midwife.org.nz/index.cfm/1,86,536,-1,html/Midwifery-Standards-Review
click here: http://www.midwife.org.nz/index.cfm/1,136,298,-1,html/Consumer-Feedback-Forms

Location http://www.midwife.org.nz/index.cfm/1,136,549,0,html