New Zealand Gazette – 2007 – No. 41

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✨ Health Definitions



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homebirth supplies and support means the payment that maternity
providers may claim for a homebirth

home visit means a postnatal domiciliary consultation between the woman
and baby and a practitioner at—

(a) the home where the woman and baby is domiciled; or

(b) a maternity facility where the woman has been discharged as an
inpatient but the baby remains as an inpatient

hospital midwifery services means the midwifery component of labour and
birth, and postnatal care provided by a DHB employed midwife where the
LMC is a general practitioner or obstetrician

inpatient means that the woman and/or baby receives maternity services in
an inpatient setting, being either admitted to a maternity facility or a birthing
unit or having received a consultation in a maternity facility of more than 3
hours duration

inpatient postnatal care means the 24 hour care a woman and baby
receives if the woman remains in the maternity facility for 12 hours or more
after the birth

labour and birth means the period from the onset of established labour until
2 hours after delivery of the placenta

last menstrual period (LMP) date means the estimated or actual date of the
beginning of the woman’s last menstrual period

lead maternity care means to provide a woman and her baby with continuity
of care throughout pregnancy, labour and birth and the postnatal period as
described in Subpart DA

lead maternity carer (LMC) means a person who—

(a) is—

(i) a general practitioner with a Diploma in Obstetrics (or equivalent, as determined by the New Zealand College of
General Practitioners); or

(ii)    a midwife; or

(iii)   an obstetrician; and

(b) is either—

(i) a maternity provider in his or her own right; or

(ii)    an employee or contractor of a maternity provider; and

(c) has been selected by the woman to provide her lead maternity care

maternity facility means a facility that provides maternity facility services in
accordance with the service specification for maternity facility services
available from the Ministry of Health

maternity non-LMC services means the services that are either in addition
to lead maternity care or services sought on a casual basis outside lead
maternity care as described in Subpart DB

medical radiation technologist means a health practitioner who is, or is
deemed to be, registered with the Medical Radiation Technologists Board
(established by the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003) in



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🏥 Definitions for Health Terms (continued from previous page)

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Definitions, Health Terms, Maternity Services, New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000