Dear Victorian listers,
Many of you will have already received information about the 'Best
Practice in Maternity Care: what have we got and what do we want?' forum on
August 5. Details are below, including an invitation to attend a Maternity
Coalition 10th anniversary dinner!
Apart from drawing your attention to this event, and letting others around
the country know what we are up to as a critical response to Victoria's
Maternity Enhancement Strategy, we are also seeking assistance from locals.
If you have information concerning maternity care conditions which you
would like publicised, please send a message in return. You may need to
email me privately if it is confidential concerning a particular hospital
etc, and we will NOT let that information out! Anything about problems in
the current system with regard to antenatal care and education, birthing
and postnatal issues are within the brief. Stories, accounts of conditions
for midwives and mothers which you think we can use politically will be of
enormous value.
We are considering reformatting any email responses into ordinary files,
stripping off any identifiers, and turning them into a poster-type display
for browsing!SO HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO TELL INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE
SYSTEM OF PROBLEMS AND ALSO ANY GOOD THINGS HAPPENING!! All women
politicians, and DHS bureaucrats, have been invited and representatives of
women's organisations. In the light of the Senate inquiry, this vic
activity becomes especialy significant. We will be asking participants to
prioritise areas for change.Enquiries- to Joy Johnston or myself,
cheers
Kerreen Reiger
Best Practice Maternity Care:
what have we got and what do we want?
WHEN AND WHERE: 3-5pm on 5 August at the Cato Conference Centre, YWCA, 489
Elizabeth St, Melbourne.
Women from all political parties, major women's organisations and networks
are invited to a free public forum to discuss current problems in maternity
services and a vision for the future.
Panel Speakers are midwives,
Maria Nethercott on antenatal care,
Vanessa Owen on birth,
Frances Bettenay, Maternal and Child Health Nurse, on postnatal
issues.
To encourage debate about a vision for the future, midwife, Patrice Hickey
will speak about NZ developments, and social researcher, Kerreen Reiger
will outline the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative in the US and the
Australian Midwifery Action Project. In discussion time, members of the
audience will be asked to prioritise suggested action strategies.
This forum is being sponsored by the Best Practice in Maternity Care
Committee formed by the ANF, ACMI (Vic), the Maternity Coalition Inc, the
Midwives' Action Group and the Maternal and Child Health Special Interest
Group.
The Maternity Coalition is then holding a dinner to celebrate its birth a
decade ago during teh Victorian Birthing Services Review!
'Changing the image of childbirth: the role of the media'
The evening event includes pre-dinner drinks at 6pm, a 2 course dinner and
discussion: MC launch of new web page, a video on current TV birth images
introduced by childbirth educator, Bronny Handfield and panel of
journalists leading the discussion.
Cost $48 (waged) or $30 (unwaged).
For further information/inquiries contact
Rhea Dempsey (03)9562 8592 or Kerreen Reiger on (03)9439 7852 .
Please complete and mail registration details as below:
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I wish to register for ' The image of childbirth in the media' on August 5.
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Enclosed is cheque/money order for $48 (waged), or $ 30 (unwaged)
PLEASE MAKE PAYMENT OUT TO THE MATERNITY COALITION INC., AND MAIL TO THE
MATERNITY COALITION INC, PO BOX 48 BRIGHTON, 3186 ASAP, AND AT THE LATEST
BY 29 JULY.
Receipts will be issued as dinner tickets on the day.
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