Comments on: Mum fights good fight over birthing bungles http://www.sydneymidwife.com.au/2009/09/mum-fights-good-fight-over-birthing-bungles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mum-fights-good-fight-over-birthing-bungles The blog of Melissa Maimann: a Medicare-eligible midwife in Sydney. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:24:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pam http://www.sydneymidwife.com.au/2009/09/mum-fights-good-fight-over-birthing-bungles/comment-page-1/#comment-1124 Pam Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:36:22 +0000 http://www.sydneymidwife.com.au/?p=1037#comment-1124 "The Good Fight wants bonuses and incentives paid to LMCs who book their client at a private birthing facility or non-tertiary hospital stopped, including a $60 bonus for midwives whose clients do not need to be admitted to hospital." This is NOT a bonus it is payment for the extra visits required when someone does not birth in the hospital. The payment is for birthing supplies which we have to pay for which includes the hire of O2 for resusitation and hire of entonox. Someone who does not birth in hospital should be visited twice a day for first 48hrs. “The Good Fight wants bonuses and incentives paid to LMCs who book their client at a private birthing facility or non-tertiary hospital stopped, including a $60 bonus for midwives whose clients do not need to be admitted to hospital.”

This is NOT a bonus it is payment for the extra visits required when someone does not birth in the hospital. The payment is for birthing supplies which we have to pay for which includes the hire of O2 for resusitation and hire of entonox. Someone who does not birth in hospital should be visited twice a day for first 48hrs.

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