✨ Maternity Services Obligations
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equivalent, as determined by the New Zealand College of General
Practitioners); or
(b) a midwife, meaning a health practitioner who is, or is deemed to be,
registered with the Midwifery Council (established by the Health
Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003) as a practitioner of
the profession of midwifery and holds an annual practicing certificate;
or
(c) an obstetrician, meaning a health practitioner who is, or is deemed to
be, registered with the Medical Council of New Zealand (established
by the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003) in the
vocational scope of obstetrics and gynaecology and holds an annual
practicing certificate.
(2) The practitioner will inform the facilities of any change in their practising
status or any conditions attached to their annual practising certificate.
13 Professional responsibilities
(1) The practitioner agrees that he or she is fully responsible for his or her own
professional practice.
(2) The practitioner will explain to the woman the relationship between the
practitioner and the facility.
14 Clinical competencies
(1) The practitioner is responsible for having the appropriate clinical
competencies if the practitioner provides a woman with any one of the
procedures listed below during labour and birth in consultation with a
specialist:
(a) management of women with epidurals;
(b) management of women requiring induction and augmentation;
(c) management of women requiring instrumental vaginal deliveries;
(d) interpretation of CTGs.
(2) The practitioner must inform the facilities whether they have the appropriate
clinical competencies to provide women in their care with any of the
procedures listed in subclause (1) above.
15 Participation in protected quality assurance activities
(1) The practitioner will participate in quality assurance activities declared by the
Ministry of Health to be protected quality assurance activities under section
54 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 that are
relevant to the provision of primary maternity services in the facilities,
including perinatal mortality review meetings where such meetings are
protected quality assurance activities.
(2) A list of all the protected quality assurance activities that are relevant to that
facility must be available to the practitioner in the facility.
16 Indemnity Protection
The practitioner shall maintain appropriate professional indemnity protection
at all times during the term of this agreement.
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