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ACT Health—midwives
(Question No 886)
Ms Clay asked the Minister for Health, upon notice, on 5 August 2022:
(1) How many midwives were employed in birthing services by (a) Canberra Health Services and (b) Calvary Public Hospital, for each year from 2012 2022 inclusive.
(2) How many first year (i.e. newly graduated) midwives were employed in birthing services by (a) Canberra Health Services and (b) Calvary Public Hospital, for each year from 2012-2022 inclusive.
(3) For each year cohort referred to in part (2), how many midwives were still employed in birthing services (a) three and (b) five years after graduation at (i) Canberra Health Services and (ii) Calvary Public Hospital.
Ms Stephen-Smith: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
As agreed by Ms Clay, the scope of this question has been adjusted to request available data from 2019 onwards.
(1) (a) Midwives employed at Canberra Health Services (CHS) are not employed in a single area such as birthing services but across maternity services, birthing is one part of the whole journey, and CHS staff are employed to work across the continuum.
As a result, the head count breakdown is provided for all paid midwives as at the end of each Financial Year between 2019-20 and 2021-22:
|
2019-2020 |
2020-2021 |
2021-2022 | |
|
Maternity Services |
141 |
167 |
167 |
|
Continuity of care |
25 |
34 |
33 |
(1) (b) Midwives employed at Calvary Public Hospital Bruce (CPHB) are not employed in a single area such as birthing suite but across the whole maternity unit. Below is the breakdown of the headcount for all paid midwives that work across Maternity Services at the end of each financial year between 2019-20 and 2021-22:
|
2019-2020 |
2020-2021 |
2021-2022 | |
|
Maternity Services |
125 |
120 |
132 |
|
Continuity of care |
14 |
12 |
16 |
(2) New graduate midwives are not specifically employed into a single area such as birthing but across maternity services on a rotational basis to work across the continuum. As a result, a breakdown is provided below of the headcount of new graduate midwives employed each calendar year:
a)
|
Canberra Health Services | ||||
|
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 | |
|
New graduate midwives |
9 |
20 |
19 |
17 |
|
Grad Dip/Masters (Registered Nurse’s doing post-graduate midwifery qualifications) |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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