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Feature:
Our Stories
Midwifery clinic provides care
close to home
Hayley Leonard is a first time mum to baby Carter.
“He’s very boisterous. He’s rolling and sitting
up and eating solids. He keeps me on my toes,”
she said.
Hayley is one of 272 women who have been
provided maternity care and support at the
midwifery clinic at Concord Hospital that opened
its doors 12 months ago.
District achieves carer-friendly
Australian first
Sydney Local Health District’s support for carers
in the workplace has been recognised, with the
District becoming the first employer in Australia
to achieve level two accreditation as a carerfriendly organisation.
The District reached the accreditation milestone
this month after demonstrating it has progressive
and embedded practices in place to support staff
carers, under the Carers + Employers Program run
by Carers NSW.
In that time, 161 babies have been born under the
care of midwives at the clinic.
The Bulbuwul Mudjin Midwifery Clinic – which
translates to ‘Strong Families’ in the local
Aboriginal language – offers a Midwifery Group
Practice (MGP) model of continuity of care.
The Clinic’s six midwives support women during
pregnancy, childbirth and provide care for the
family in the first weeks after the birth of their
baby.
The Carers + Employers Program is the first
initiative in Australia to formally accredit carerfriendly employers.
It’s estimated about 12 per cent of the District’s
16,000 member workforce balance their roles at
work with carer responsibilities at home.
A carer is anyone who provides informal support
or care to a family member or friend with a
disability, mental illness, drug and/or alcohol
dependency, chronic condition or is frail and aged.
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