New Zealand Gazette – 2007 – No. 41

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✨ Health Service Specifications



13 APRIL 2007

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 41

DB13 Service specification: urgent out of hours pregnancy care

(1) A general practitioner, midwife, or obstetrician must provide the services
listed in clause (2) to a woman who—

(a) is in the first, second or third trimester; and

(b) presents between the hours of 6pm and 8am on weekdays or at all
times on Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays; and

(c) has either made an attempt and failed to access:

(d) (2)

(i) her LMC (where the women is registered with a LMC); or

(ii) her enrolling PHO practice (where the woman is in the first
trimester); or

is away from her usual place of residence.

The services that must be provided include—

(a) pregnancy care and advice in response to an urgent request received
where the nature of the request is urgent (but not necessarily the
service ultimately provided); and

(b) emergency referral to a specialist if necessary; and

(c) if the woman has an LMC, the provision of information to the woman’s
LMC on the care provided.

Defined in this notice: away from her usual place of residence, first trimester, general
practitioner, LMC, midwife, obstetrician, PHO, second trimester, specialist, third trimester,
usual place of residence

DB14 Payment rules: urgent pregnancy care

(1) A maternity provider may claim only 1 urgent pregnancy care fee per woman
per day.

(2) These fees may not be claimed for services provided to a woman in the first
trimester by that woman’s enrolling PHO practice.

Defined in this notice: claim, first trimester, maternity provider, PHO

Module: Non-LMC labour and birth (rural support)

DB15 Service specification: Non-LMC labour and birth (rural support)

A general practitioner or midwife must provide the following services as
required to women during labour and birth:

(a) urgent care and treatment to support a LMC in a rural or remote rural
domicile (as defined in Schedule 2) if the services of an obstetrician
or paediatrician are needed but are not available and the LMC
requires assistance from another practitioner who has additional
maternity skills:



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VUW Te Waharoa — PDF NZ Gazette 2007, No 41


Gazette.govt.nz — PDF NZ Gazette 2007, No 41




✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏥 DB13 Service specification: urgent out of hours pregnancy care (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Urgent pregnancy care, Service specification, General practitioner, Midwife, Obstetrician, LMC, PHO

🏥 DB14 Payment rules: urgent pregnancy care

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Payment rules, Urgent pregnancy care, Maternity provider, PHO

🏥 DB15 Service specification: Non-LMC labour and birth (rural support)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Service specification, Non-LMC labour and birth, Rural support, General practitioner, Midwife, LMC