Representing New Zealand’s Midwives

Sorry but the current model is not working. As a woman having a baby I have continuity of care up until I need pain relief, I choose to have epidural.. midwife gone! Something dreadful goes wrong and I need a LSCS, just when I need the support from my midwife .. gone. I need to be induced, synto starts.. midwife gone. Does the midwife tell me at booking that she won’t be there if I need any of the above? Probably not..

The College notes members views about the lack of attention to midwifery pay and conditions during the national governments last term. The comments from midwife Morgan Weathington and women in content of the written article clearly articulate the issues are greater than simply a lack of accessible primary facilities in our rural communities. Comment from Julie Anne Genter in the following TV clip also highlights the lack of action by the previous government. (note: Some previous posts deleted due to inappropriate language.) www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/national-says-extend-maternity-services-in-central-otago-if-e...

Did nothing in nine years to support our midwifery issues .... I have as much faith in Simon's promises as shit on the sole of my shoe. It's just election promises when it should have been sorted when they were last in .... little too late.

Wasn’t it National who closed all the birth units and let our pay and conditions get this bad! Midwifery is in crisis throughout the whole of NZ.

Let's build another unit 😂👍 nevermind that we have no midwives left to work at it 🤭🤔. We will just run it understaffed and underpaid and when it all goes bust, we will just blaim the midwives again.

Yeah right! I think it’s just a Tui ad! We are in this mess BECAUSE of them.

Really?! Where was the fixing of the entrenched underfunding and inequality for midwives over the 9 years when National were in power recently. NZCOM had to actually go to court over pay equity to get traction to even begin negotiations with National. This is absolutely blatent electioneering. If National truly want to fix the issues (they don't) then show us how you will fix them. No bullshit bandaids. And Labour you better get this debacle sorted soon - no more mucking about... the next budget is crucial to see if you can actually show us that you value women, children and our women workforce. The midwifery undervaluing and pay inequality has gone on way to long and needs to be fixed NOW!

Gosh as much as $500k aye, that’ll fix the national crisis - NOT! 😡 ... Morgan & Kimberley said it! 🌸

Nice to see someone is doing something

There's a really good positive everyone is overlooking which is keeping pressure on current govt. So let's milk this for all its worth!

Oh yeah who’s going to run it and how much will they pay?? Egg

oh please, they let it run into the ground in the first place. phuft!

You can buy a small apartment for that money in Wanaka

Bribery for votes if ever I saw it.....

Itr is easy to make promises it is just so much harder to actually act on them, National can promise whatever they like and as they (and sadly so many poeple do) jsut pull away from the promise when it suis Total Bullshit story....sadly

Still wouldn’t vote this muppet in!!

God they’ll try anything.

500k isn’t gonna cover it, lol!

Not worth putting that Muppet in power!

Yeah right

If only that was funny...

Such a great series

pay equity would definitely increase midwives, and dhbs have missed the whole point...pay staffing and CULTURE are the main reasons midwives leave, culture is something they can change and so far Ive seen no improvement or acknowledgment around this to change. No use hiring overseas if culture is the same...those midwives will leave also, it is a bandaid issue for lack of insight.

I stopped practicing 3 years ago because of the conditions, understaffing, poor pay and horrendous hours. Doing more for less constantly. I had teenagers and it was not just affecting me anymore it was affecting my family. I have seen nothing in the last three years that given me any hope for improvement, in fact from what I hear from my ex colleagues it’s getting worse. This has been an urgent crisis for far to long already. Absolutely tragic for Midwifery in NZ. Heartbreaking.

Can we please be mindful when discussing if we need overseas midwives or not. There are many here already and I am one of them.

So many NZ midwives work in Australia for better financial rewards even without NZ midwifery autonomy!

But I wouldnt think pay equity will magically create a few hundred extra midwives ready to work - it would still take time to build up numbers. I would rather have competent midwives from overseas filling in the gap than have women and babies missing out on care due to understaffing. With pay equity and time, we may not require as many midwives from overseas to fill those gaps; but for now what else is a realistic short term alternative?

Our DHB are sending out our woman because there is no staff to care for them, which sucks for all of us, LMC loss of income and woman being transferred to another hospital without their support...something needs to be done!

Well said. Hope someone is listening

Emily Griffin

Is there a way of watching outside of New Zealand? I’m in Australia and I can’t download the app.

Same!!! ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼