Appendix 2 - Witnesses who appeared before the committee at public hearings
Friday, 27 August 1999 at 9.05
am, Senate Committee Room 2S1, Parliament House, Canberra
Department of Health and Aged Care
Mr Charles Maskell-Knight, A/g First Assistant
Secretary,
Health
Access and Financing Division
Dr Margaret Dean,
Medical Officer
Ms Marion Dunlop,
Assistant Secretary, Health Strategies and Research Branch
Dr Bill Nichol,
Assistant Director, Diagnosis Related Groups Development Section,
Acute and Coordinated Care Branch, Health
Services Division
Mr Robert Wells,
First Assistant Secretary, Office of National Health and
Medical Research Council
Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare
Associate Professor Paul
Lancaster, Director, National Perinatal Statistics Unit
Women’s Electoral Lobby Australia Inc
Ms Helen Leonard,
National Executive Officer
Ms Ingrid McKenzie,
Convenor, Childbirth and Breastfeeding Working Group
Dr Barbara Vernon, Member,
Childbirth and Breastfeeding Working Group
Catholic Health Australia
Mr Francis Sullivan, Executive
Director
Women’s Hospitals Australia and Australian
Healthcare Association
Dr Stan Goldstein,
President, Women’s Hospitals Australia
Professor Jeremy
Oats, Executive Member, Women’s Hospitals Australia
Dr Ross Sweet,
Member, Women’s Hospitals Australia
Ms Jenni Jarvis,
Member, Women’s Hospitals Australia
Ms Anne Cahill, National
Director, Women’s Hospitals Australia
Australian Health Insurance Association Ltd
Mr Russell
Schneider, Chief Executive Officer
Monday, 6 September 1999 at
10.10 am, 1st Floor Committee and Conference Room, Royal Women’s Hospital, Carlton, Vic
Dr Jane Fisher
Lecturer, Key Centre for
Women’s Health in Society, University of Melbourne
Australian College of Midwives Inc -
Victorian Branch
Ms Julie Collette
(Hon President)
Ms Joyce Johnston,
Professional Officer
Royal District Nursing Service
Ms Pat
McPherson, Policy Officer
Ms Rosemary Brookes, Postnatal
District Nurse
Victorian Health Services Commissioner
Ms Beth Wilson,
Commissioner
Ms Lynn Griffin, Investigator
The Maternity Coalition
Ms Rhea Dempsey,
Executive Committee Member
Dr Kerreen Reiger,
Committee Member
Ms Anne Sprague,
Midwife Member
Ms Laura Delaney, Editor, Birth
Matters
The Royal Women’s Hospital
Dr Neil Roy,
Divisional Director, Neonatal Services
Ms Ro Hogan,
Divisional Director, Maternity Services
Dr Chris Bayly,
Divisional Director, Community Health Services
Dr Len Matthews,
Consultant Obstetrician
Ms Lisa Dunlop, Unit
Manager, Perinatal Medicine
Ms Janet Joss, Manager, Well
Women’s Services
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of
Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
Dr Janet Duke, Honorary
Secretary
National Association of
Specialist Obstreticians and Gynaecologists
Dr
Jillian Woinarski, Treasurer
Dr Samual Campbell, Vice-President
Tuesday, 7 September 1999 at
9.05 am, Reception Room, Ground Floor the Samuel Way Building, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North
Adelaide, SA
Flinders Medical Centre
Associate Professor
Peter Marshall, Director, Women’s and Children at Flinders
Professor Marc Keirse, Head of
Department
Perinatal Society of Australia and New
Zealand
Professor Jeffrey Robinson
Nunkuwarrin Yunti
Mrs Ethel Abdullah,
Health Worker, Adelaide Central Community Health Service
Ms Lynette Andersen,
Aboriginal Health Worker, Karpa Ngarrattendi,
Flinders Medical Centre
Ms Katherine Morgan,
Manager, Karpa Ngarrattendi Aboriginal Health Unit,
Flinders Medical Centre
Ms Susan Cameron,
Team Leader, Nunkuwarrin Yunti
Ms Felicity
Bhatnagar, Community Health Nurse, Adelaide Central
Community Health Service
Birth Matters
Ms Vanessa Shribman
Ms Jennifer Watkins
Ms Megan Resch
Ms Jenny Taylor
The Keep Queen Elizabeth Hospital Delivering
Community Action Group
Ms Lisa Buttery,
Committee Member
Ms Carol Hanna,
Committee Member
Ms Michelle Moore,
Committee Member
Ms Lan Nguyen,
Community Member Representing NESB Communities
Mr Trevor White, Community
Volunteer
SA Department of Human Services
Ms Kay
Anastassiadis, Prinicipal Policy Officer
Mrs Judith Brown,
Executive Officer, Obstretric Review
Dr Annabelle Chan,
Senior Consultant, Pregnancy Outcome Unit
Dr Michael Jelly, Chief Medical Officer, Statewide Services
South Australian Independent Midwives
Association
Ms Julie Pratt, Member
Midwives Act Lobby Group
Ms Anne Littlejohn,
Member
Ms Sally Littlejohn, Member
Dr Deborah Turnbull & Sr Edith Reddin
University of
Adelaide and Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Dr Julia Vnuk (Private capacity)
Dr Brian Pridmore
Director, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Queen
Elizabeth Hospital
Wednesday, 8 September 1999 at
9.15 am, Clinical Staff Lounge, 2nd Floor, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Subiaco, WA
Dr Hilda Turnbull MLA
former
Chairman, WA Legislative Assembly Select Committee on
Intervention in Childbirth
King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women
Ms Robyn Collins,
Midwifery Director, Obstetric Clinical Care Unit
Professor John
Newnham, Professor of Maternal Foetal Medicine
Dr Brian Roberman, Medical
Director
Community Based Midwifery Program
Ms
Andrea Taman, Vice-Chairperson
Dr Ralph Hickling,
Chair, Management Steering Committee
Mrs Enid Facer,
Midwife Representative
Ms Tracy Reibel, Project
Administrator
Royal Australian College of General
Practitioners
Dr Kathy Innes, Joint
Consultative Committee, Obstretrics/Gynaecology
Professor C.A. Michael
National Director, Health
Services Development, St John of God Health Care
Birthplace Support Group
Ms Linda Rawlings, Committee
member
Health Department of Western Australia
Dr Dorothy Jones, Medical Director,
Clinical Care Casemix and Purchasing Unit
Ms Bernadette Hodgins,
Senior Purchasing Manager, General Health Purchasing
Ms Vivien Gee, Coordinator,
Maternal and Child Health, Health Information Centre
Australian College of Midwives - WA Branch
Ms Carol Thorogood,
Midwife Educator
Tuesday, 14 September 1999 at
9.05 am, Coles Room, Level 11, State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Australian Midwifery Action Project
Ms Sally
Tracy, Senior Research Midwife
Ms Pat Brodie, Senior Research
Midwife
Professor Marie Chamberlain
Clinical Chair in
Midwifery, University of Sydney
The National Association of
Childbirth Educators
Ms Karen Myors,
National Vice President and NSW State President
Ms Pauline Green,
Member and Trainer
Ms Lynne Clune, Member
National Health and Medical Research Council
Professor Lesley Barclay,
Council Member
Professor David
Henderson-Smart, Member, Health Advisory Committee
Midwifery Practice and Research Centre
Professor Lesley
Barclay, Principal investigator
Ms Caroline Homer, Senior
Research Midwife
Australian Society of
Anaesthetists
Dr Rod Westhorpe,
President
NSW Pregnancy & Newborn Services Network &
Centre for
Perinatal Health Services Research
Ms Chris Blatch,
Director, Policy, Planning and Service Delivery
Ms Wendy Fischer, Health
Services Manager, Research, Planning and Policy
Royal North Shore Hospital - Hospital Based
Midwives
Mrs Lynn Evans,
Clinical Midwife Consultant
Ms Catherine Maher,
Midwife Educator
Ms Yvonne McCann, Director,
Nurse Management, Women’s and Children’s Health
Westmead Hospital, Division of Women’s Health
and Newborn Care
Dr Andrew Pesce,
Staff Specialist
Wednesday, 15 September
1999 at 9.10 am, Kevin Cronin Room, Ground Floor, Administration Building,
Mater Misericordiae Hospital, South Brisbane, Qld
Queensland Council on Obstetric and
Paediatric Morbidity and Mortality
Dr James King, Chairman
Dr Sarah Buckley (Private capacity)
Mater Misericordiae Mothers’ Hospital
Mrs Jennifer
Skinner, Executive Director
Professor Jeremy
Oats, Director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Associate Professor
David Tudehope, Director of Neonatology
Ms Jane
Jacobs, Nurse Researcher
Ms Kathleen Ramsey, Project
Officer, Women’s Health Strategic Plan
Association for Improvement in the Maternity
Services
Ms Christine Grose,
Vice-President, South Queensland Branch
Ms Catherine Renkin,
Secretary
Mrs Bronwyn Tocker,
Treasurer
Ms Ulrike Weckes, Committee
Member
Home Midwifery Association (Qld)
Ms Deidre Bowman,
Committee Member
Ms Marion Begalo, Public
Relations Officer
Dr Kathleen Fahy
Associate Professor
& Master of Midwifery Coordinator,
University of Southern Queensland
Australian College of Midwives - Queensland
Branch
Ms Patricia
Schneider, President
Ms Carmel Dunne,
Vice-President
Queensland Health
Dr John Youngman, General
Manager, Health Services
Royal Women’s Hospital Health Service
District
Dr Don Cave,
Director, Maternity Services
Ms Corelle Davies,
Project Officer, Obstetric Services
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