Alison Eddy
Community health care gets short-term funding injection
An injection of money into cash-strapped community health care services is expected to cover most of the immediate extra costs from Covid-19 but anxiety over long-term funding remains.
More than $92… Audio
Cash injection not enough for midwives
Midwives say a $2500 cash injection for each worker to help cover their lockdown costs isn't going to cut it. .
More than $92 million will go into essential health services that financially suffered… Audio
Midwives receive "radio silence" from Government over funding concerns
The College of Midwives says their sector is feeling frustrated and perplexed by the lack of any funding - or any real mention of their sector - in last week's Budget.
The chief Executive of the… Audio
Faint praise for midwives?
Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Prime Minister Jacinda Adern have heaped praise on the important work midwives do in our communities, especially during lockdown; the PM also saying… Audio
Midwives urgently need extra funding
Midwives say their calls for extra funding for the chronically underfunded sector have fallen on deaf ears, as their struggles continue to mount during covid-19.
Groups representing GPs, senior… Audio
Community Midwives' big push
As Canadian midwives celebrate a landmark legal decision to end a gender pay gap, the New Zealand College of Midwives are stopping short of a threat to revive their High Court claim here. Meanwhile a… Audio
Call for better pay for community midwives
A petition calling for better pay and funding for community midwives has got more than 11,000 signatures in just five days. Audio
The Panel with Mamari Stephens and Ben Thomas (Part 1)
Whakaari / White Island update; Kids pension: how would it work; Call for better pay for community midwives; A decade of disruption in TV. Audio
Maternity service closure forces roadside birth
A Southland women was forced to give birth on the side of the road on Sunday because her local maternity centre was not equipped to handle the complicated birth. The nearby Lumdsden Maternity centre… Audio
The tests and procedures you should question when you're pregnant
Pregnant women are too often getting tests and procedures that aren't necessary, says the NZ College of Midwives Deputy Chief Executive Alison Eddy. She talks about the most important things to make… Audio
Midwives say extra budget money won't fix problems
The budget contained 103 million dollars of new funding for community midwives over the next four years. Half of that will go towards a nearly nine per cent increase in fees for over 14 hundred lead… Audio
Births delayed without pain-relief at Auckland Hospital
A woman who gave birth at Auckland City Hospital earlier this year says chronic staff shortages are leading to a lack of adequate care. She says the birth was delayed by a day because there were not… Audio
Midwives negotiate overhaul of funding
From July community based midwives will get a 6 per cent pay rise. The $8 million dollar package was agreed to by the government in return for the College of Midwives withdrawing its high profile… Audio
Midwives hit back at criticism by coroner
Midwives say a coroner's report critical of the care of a young Ngaruawahia mother and her newborn baby before their deaths in 2012 overlooks gang-related intimidation involved in the case. Audio
Young men blamed for NZ's soaring chlamydia rate
The attitude of young men is being highlighted as one of the main reasons New Zealand has such high rates of the sexually transmitted infection, Chlamydia. Audio
