Dear Ozmidders, I've just been watching an ABC item on our Health Minister Wendy Edmonds - apparantly there has been a string of 27 resignations in ward 9D at the Royal Brisbane leukemia unit. I really have no data other than what the journalists presented.
Question for you - if you have worked in a Qld Health maternity unit - are the anecodatal stories of bullying and "horizontal violence" true. If you have resigned in the last 2 years and there is in your mind a direction connection to the policies and/or funding from Qld Health - AIMS would like to know about it. Please e-mail me - anonymous contributions gratefully accepted too! (Andrea, hope this is OK with you & list protocol - sometimes I think people need the option to speak without fear of retribution) Wendy Edmonds has told me that she believes all women need to be where they can have a caesarean at hand. She was very supportive of the water birth ban, and continues to ignore requests for more birth centres. I suspect there must be a lot of frustrated Qld midwives out there - NOW is the time to speak up. Have a great weekend everyone, Toni Cannard AIMS Australia Inc Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
