Governance - The National Committee

The NZCOM is governed by a board (the ‘National Committee’) comprising a total of 21 nominated and elected representatives from throughout New Zealand. Representatives include rural midwives, urban midwives, educators, students, consumers, Maori midwives and birthing women.

The NZCOM’s governance structure allows for extensive networking at regional and national levels, thus ensuring that the NZCOM is responsive to maternity service issues.

The National Committee meets approximately four times per annum. Between meetings, consultation and decision making occurs via formal and informal communication with management. In addition, a separate governance subcommittee (which also includes non National Committee elected representation) provides readily available advice and guidance to management.

The National Committee representatives are as follows:

Kaumatua	Mina Timutimu
Elder	Sue Bree
President	Ann Yates
Chief Executive Officer	Karen Guilliland
*Organisation Represented*	*Representative's Name*
Northland Region	Anne Nichol
Auckland Region	Juliette Wotton and Caroline Muir
Bay of Plenty Region	Maureen O'Reilly
Waikato Region	Fiona Hermann
Central Region	Tungane Kani
Wellington Region	Kath Boyle
Nelson Marlborough Region	Terry Wiffen
Canterbury West Coast Region	Kate Nicoll & Yvonne Hiskemuller
Otago Region	Toni Linington
Southland Region	Melanie Welfare
Nga Maia o Aotearoa me te Waipounamu	Crete Cherrington & Amber Clarke
La Leche League	Trudy Hart
Parents Centres New Zealand Limited	Vacant position
Home Birth Aotearoa	Sharon Knightbridge
Schools of Midwifery Student Representatives	Vacant position

The Immediate Past President is Rose Barker.

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