NSW: Doctor-assisted births end at Camden hospital

AAP General News (Australia)
02-11-2005
NSW: Doctor-assisted births end at Camden hospital

The New South Wales government says women will no longer be able to have doctor-assisted
births at Camden hospital in Sydney's south-west.

State Health Minster MORRIS IEMMA says women will have to give birth at Campbelltown
hospital until a new midwife-led model is put in place at Camden.

The changes come just two years after the state government spent $20 million redeveloping
Camden's maternity unit, which opened just before the March 2003 election.

But a dramatic decrease in births, and specialist shortages in areas such as anaesthetics,
have made the maternity ward unsustainable in the long term.

Camden Hospital will continue to deliver ante- and post-natal care services.

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