Links
- Maternity Newborn Clinical Network (MNCN)
The Maternity and Newborn Clinical Network (MNCN) was established in August 2007 following a state-wide forum for people interested in perinatal care (consumers, clinicians, hospital administrators).
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/clinicalnetworks/maternity.htm
- Australian College of Midwives
The Australian College of Midwives (ACM) is a national, not-for-profit organisation that serves as the peak professional body for midwives in Australia.
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RNAZCOG)
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) is dedicated to maintaining the highest possible standards in obstetrics and gynaecology in Australia and New Zealand.
- Department of Health Maternity Care in Victoria Web site
The Maternity Services Program in Victoria aims to enhance public maternity care by working towards high quality birthing services as outlined in the Victorian Government’s Future Directions for Victoria’s Maternity Services – May 2004 (pdf, 1.23 MB)
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/maternitycare
- The Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) The Victorian Perinatal Emergency Referral Service (PERS)
The Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) is a multidisciplinary society dedicated to improving the health and long term outcomes for mothers and their babies.
- Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia has established State and Territory Boards to support the work of the National Board in the national scheme.
8 Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval (PIPER)
To provide excellence in retrieval services and clinical care for babies, children and pregnant women.
- Ambulance Victoria
Ambulance Victoria has 250 ambulance branches strategically located across the Victoria hospitals.
http://www.ambulance.vic.gov.au
- The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).
The College’s mission is to improve health and wellbeing for all Australians by supporting general practitioners, registrars and medical students by assessing doctors skills and knowledge, supplying ongoing professional development activities, developing resources and guidelines, helping general practitioners with issues that affect their practice and development standards that general practices use as part of the accreditation processes.
- Western Victoria Primary Health Network
Western Victoria Primary Health Network consists of four regional centres located in Geelong, Ballarat, Horsham and Warrnambool. Management and staff are based at each location.
- Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding provides babies with the best start in life and is a key contributor to infant health. Australia’s infant feeding guidelines recommend exclusive breastfeeding of infants to around six months of age when solid foods are introduced and continued breastfeeding until the age of 12 months and beyond, if both mother and infant wish.
https://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/
- Safe sleeping
Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) is a broad term that includes all sudden and unexpected deaths of infants less than 12 months old, who have died in their sleep with the cause of death not initially known. https://www.rch.org.au/rchcpg/hospital_clinical_guideline_index/Safe_Sleeping/
- Maternity eHandbook
The Maternity eHandbook provides clinical guidance for maternity clinicians caring for women during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period.
https://www.bettersafercare.vic.gov.au/resources/clinical-guidance/maternity-ehandbook
- Neonatal eHandbook
The Neonatal eHandbook provides a structured approach to the clinical management of conditions regularly encountered by health professionals caring for neonates.
https://www.bettersafercare.vic.gov.au/resources/clinical-guidance/maternity-and-newborn
