The Weekly Advertiser – Wednesday, September 1, 2021

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ALL IN GOOD TIME: Could it be that a famous television time traveller has taken a wrong turn? Anyone visiting Max and Jenny Green’s Old Dadswell Town at Dadswells Bridge when COVID-19 restrictions ease could be forgiven for assuming as much. The reality is the Greens have welcomed a new addition to their quirky tourist attraction – an English police box similar to the time-travelling ‘Tardis’ operated by Dr Who of science-fiction fame. The police box has joined Old Dadswell Town’s eclectic collection of attractions and curios that make it a must-visit stopover for people seeking accommodation with a difference. Mr Green is pictured doing his best impression of the famous ‘Doctor’. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Service ‘game-changer’ BY SARAH MATTHEWS

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immera Health Care Group leaders are working to introduce a new model of care they believe will be a ‘game-changer’ for maternity services in the Wimmera-southern Mallee.

Yandilla nurse-midwife unit manager Michelle Coutts is heading up a project to design and implement a new model of care as part of a complete overhaul of maternity services in Horsham. Mrs Coutts said Wimmera Base Hospital was committed to implementing a new model as part of a revision of its maternity service to ensure

it was ‘safer, efficient, cost-effective and sustainable for the future’. She said what that would ultimately look like would depend on the outcome of six months of extensive research, stakeholder and community feedback and planning. “First and foremost, Wimmera Base Hospital should be a place where women want to birth – and not just birth here because they have to,” she said. “We provide good care but we need to provide a much more contemporary, evidence-based maternity service.” The hospital provides obstetric services in Horsham Rural City, Hindmarsh, West Wimmera, Northern

Grampians and Yarriambiack municipalities, primarily on a ‘shared care’ basis between midwives and obstetric doctors. Mrs Coutts said the new model of care would most likely be based on the ‘caseload’ model, which she said was the ‘gold standard’ of maternity care. Caseload involves one midwife – and back-up midwives – taking care of a woman throughout pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal stay and home visits. The assigned midwife would be oncall to provide care during labour and birth as well as available to answer any queries.

Mrs Coutts said the caseload model was primarily focused on the principle of ‘continuity of care’. “At the moment, unless a woman comes to Yandilla to get checked out, when she goes into labour she is usually cared for by people she doesn’t know,” she said. “With a caseload model, the patient forms a relationship with a midwife in a clinical setting, who works collaboratively with a doctor. “Caseload is first and foremost about women and their families, and we know that continuity of care leads to much better antenatal and obstetric outcomes. “Evidence demonstrates that wom-

en experience better outcomes when midwives are the primary maternity care providers and work collaboratively with other providers to coordinate maternity care.” Mrs Coutts said an important aspect of the caseload model was improving communication between midwives and doctors. “This project is absolutely about improving the collaboration between the obstetric, midwifery and allied health workforce and each discipline working to their full scope and areas of expertise,” she said. Continued page 3

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