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Health, Ageing and Community Services—Standing Committee
Report 10
MS CODY (Murrumbidgee) (10.48): I present the following report:
Health, Ageing and Community Services—Standing Committee—Report 10—Report on Inquiry into Maternity Services in the ACT, dated 3 June 2020, together with a copy of the extracts of the relevant minutes of proceedings.
MS CODY: I move:
That the report be noted.
You will have to excuse me today; I am a bit one-armed.
MADAM SPEAKER: Take your time, Ms Cody.
MS CODY: Thank you.
Mr Rattenbury: Like a poker machine.
MS CODY: Madam Speaker, my colleagues are making me laugh. Is it not wonderful to be surrounded by such wonderful people? I am pleased to speak to the Standing Committee on Health, Ageing and Community Services report on the committee’s inquiry into maternity services in the ACT.
At the time the committee announced its inquiry into maternity services in the ACT, the committee emphasised that pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting are an important and significant time for mothers, fathers and their families. It is vital that the services that support this significant time and the experiences that accompany pregnancy and childbirth should, in our community, be of the highest quality.
In its decision to inquire into maternity services, the committee acknowledged that there are a range of maternity care models available in the ACT. The committee also observed at that time that there was an increasing demand for continuous care across the maternity pathway as it concerns different care models, and was interested in hearing how these respective pathways were working as it concerns maternity services available within the ACT.
The committee received over 70 submissions to its inquiry. Submissions were received from seven key stakeholder groups, individuals, interest groups and organisations, professional associations, academics, policy and research institutes, union groups, government and civic-based stakeholders and private sector providers.
The majority of submissions to the inquiry were received from individuals. If the committee were to scale back this inquiry to first principles, at the heart of the issues
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