Warning - for people who do not want to know the statistics of hospital, please do not read this post.


Most level three hospitals have lower rates of intervention then Level 2 & 1 hospitals. But hospitals vary dramatically - this can not be explained away by saying certain women are going there, the local population or a specialist program are affecting the results.

We have a serious problem with our maternity health services.

Each hospital (private and public) has their own policies.

Each private Dr's or Midwife also have their own way of practice.

This is what is affecting the outcomes for mothers and babies.

We need easy access to statistics of all maternity services.

Let's prevent woman saying "but no-body told me'!

Here is some example for Maternity Performance 2006
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/materni...m-ind-0607.pdf

Caeserean Rate for: Standard Primiparae (1st time) low risk mother.
Frankston Hospital 30%
Mercy Werribee 27%
Stawell 43%
Ararat 5%
West Gippsland (Warrigal) 9%
Monash Medical Centre 13%

and these,
Term infants transferred or admitted to SCN or NICU for reasons other then birth defects,
Royal Women's Hospital 4%
Mildura Base Hospital 29%
The Northern 12%
Box Hill 11%
West Gippsland (Warrigal) 1%

and this is interesting,
Rate of third or fourth degree perineal tears in standard primiparae
Barwon Health (Geelong) 11%
Sandringham 1%
Casey 2%
Monash 3%
Warrnambool 10%
Royal Women's Hospital 6%

As a post note: I just rang the Stawell Hospital to find out what level hospital they were and found out ........... they are not open - they are on by pass to Ararat - as they are every second weekend. Just to remind everyone Stawell CS rate is 43%, Ararat 5%.

What is going on?????