kERRY how can we be a aprt of this. Tell us how we can help. I wanna
party!
your nigel and cathy
--- Kerry McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Di et al
>
>
> And for all the politicans who have attended the
> Financial Management
> Reform workshops run recently in Canberra, they will
> be very keen to know
> the outcome criteria you use and the outcome
> criteria women and seeking
> and the outcome criteria you can promise.
>
>
> Can someone please check who among the Senate
> Enquiry have attended???
> Phone the Clerk of the Parliament's office and ask.
>
>
> If all have attended, then they will want to know
> how much it will cost
> to implement this scheme. When you cost this, will
> you please cost in
> things like:
>
> i) homecare for every woman after giving birth for 6
> weeks?
>
> ii) cost of maintaining and enhancing the skills of
> specialists whose
> services women everywhere have come to expect???
>
> iii) the plan to market to the women that you are
> deliverying WHAT THEY
> ARE ASKING FOR
>
> iv) and the ultimate benefit in terms of industry,
> jobs and the
> environment.
>
>
> Then give them the performance criteria of the new
> service - and name it
> well. Maternity Services seems OK to me. But is it
> possible under the
> constitution for the federal government to consider
> deliverying maternity
> services. I think that's a state's right.
>
>
> So find the appropriate authority under which the
> commonwealth government
> can provide a solution.
>
>
> Tied funding isn't on the agenda any longer as
> Howard has promised
> state's clear funding with the GST money. Someone
> will have to find out
> what arguments will stand water in the new funding
> environment.
>
>
> Then...name the service the commonwealth has the
> power and the political
> will to provide. Give it VERY clear performance
> criteria. Think carefully
> about these. There must be one in terms of numbers
> or quanitity, one in
> terms of quality or outcomes for the women, one in
> terms of location and
> one in terms of cost.
>
>
> Then the service has to have a sexy name so the
> government can sell a
> recognisable product into the Australian
> market...and get the qudos for
> it.
>
>
> Then there has to be the existing management
> structure to actually
> deliver the product - to the specified performance
> criteria.
>
>
> If we set the performance criteria well (and this
> list is a good place to
> start, though many more would need to be involved)
> [don't kid yourself if
> you think we can pull this one off alone] then we
> can set the standard
> for maternity service delivery (or the service that
> the commonwealth CAN
> and WILL ) provide that best takes us along the path
> to the maternity
> services we want for ourselves.
>
>
> Then...hell, won't we have a great party!!
>
>
> 'night all
>
>
> PS If you think I'm being humourous! I'm Not. I
> really mean this. It can
> be done, and midwives havn't got the skills to do it
> alone.
>
>
> How are we going to respond to this enquiry???
>
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> Kerry
>
>
> At 07:28 PM 7/5/99 +1000, you wrote:
>
> >>>>
>
> <excerpt><smaller>Hello Kathleen
>
> I am also of the opinion that we need to use this
> (senate inquiry) in a
> positive way and not be bitter and cynical about it.
> I hope that the
> committe will be truely overwhelmed with the deluge
> of information they
> will recieve and be forced to examine the incredible
> disparity (bad pun)
> of birthing services in this country. It will also
> serve to demonstrate
> the hard work that is going on all over the country
> by commited
> individuals who put women where they belong - at the
> centre of service
> provision, recognise birth for what it is - one of
> womens' most powerful
> life experiences, acknowlege the important and
> pivotal role midwives have
> in woman-centred service provision, and examine the
> path maternity care
> is on.
>
> </smaller>
>
> <smaller>We need to use this carefully, and make
> sure that women benefit
> from the information which hopefully will be used to
> change things for
> the better. Hey! The millenium is around the corner
> - let us go into it
> with panache! We are midwives - let's do it!!
>
> </smaller>
>
> <smaller>Lynne Staff
>
> </smaller>
>
> </excerpt><<<<<<<<
>
>
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