Listen to rural midwives Bex Tidball, Nicky Pealing and Sarah Stokes, MERAS Co leader Caroline Conroy, College CE Alison Eddy and Health Minister David Clark in this week’s episode of RNZ Focus on Politics discussing…

The New Zealand College of Midwives has elected its first Māori president, Nicole Pihema.

Media Release 4 July 2019 The New Zealand College of Midwives Members Have Voted in a New President Nicole Pihema of Ngāpuhi and Te Rarawa descent is the first Māori President, and is currently the…

Tēnā koutou, It is my pleasure to announce that Nicole Pihema has been elected as the next president of the College. As well as being a practising LMC midwife in rural Northland, Nicole brings extensive…

The Ministry of Health has released its new National Syphilis Action Plan in an important step in reversing a growing number of cases of the infection. Cases of syphilis in New Zealand have been on…

Pharmac have announced that from 1 July 2019 funding of the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine will include pregnant women in the second and third trimester of their pregnancy, as well as parents or primary caregivers of infants admitted to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or Specialist Care Baby Unit for more than 3 days.

At a time when parts of New Zealand and some DHB’s are struggling to recruit, numbers provided by the regulatory body, the Midwifery Council, show that at the end of April this year, 3171 midwives had APC’s, that’s 102 more than in 2018.

A chronic shortage of hospital and community midwives has brought the maternity services sector to crisis point after years campaigning for pay increases. Cate Broughton and Jo McKenzie-McLean report. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/113637276/will-more-babies-be-born-on-the-side-of-the-road