Associate Minister of
Health
Changes to how community midwives are
paid, will better recognise the time and travel required in
more remote parts of New Zealand - and the service provided
to mothers and whānau with complex needs.
“The
Primary Maternity Services Notice has been upgraded, to
better fund care for women and whānau in rural areas, and
those with complex clinical or social needs,” says
Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall.
The
Notice sets out how self-employed primary maternity care
providers are paid, and remunerates midwives for services
provided from the beginning of pregnancy until six weeks
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