Tasmania's peak medical body says maternity services in the state's north-west are no longer safe and the state government needs to immediately take them over.
Independent reviews of maternity services in the north-west identified issues in 2017 and 2021.
"This aligns with the delivery of public maternity services elsewhere in the state and provides opportunities to move toward a more fully integrated and networked statewide service," the report recommended. "The services are already in the private sector, there's no reason why the state government couldn't look at leasing those services back under the public sector and taking over the management if they don't have the space to do it themselves."Penguin local Tegan Murphy has been collecting birth stories and concerns from women on the north-west coast for the past few months.
Ms Murphy said some of the persistent issues raised were that there were not enough staff at the private hospital, there was no continuity of care, women were being induced and then sent home due to staff shortages, and public patients were being rushed out of birthing suites to accommodate private patients.
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