A Select Committee on Women's Health has been established. You can view the Terms of Reference and respond to the Inquiry here: Select Committee on Women's Health – Parliament of Australia. Thank you for taking the time to respond to our survey so that we can incorporate your feedback into ACM's submission.

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1. Are you a current ACM member?

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2. Do you identify as First Nations Australian?

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3. Do you identify as Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (other than First Nations)?

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4. Where do you live (state / territory)?

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5. Where do you live (MM category)?

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6. Are you an endorsed midwife?

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7. What is your primary work setting?

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8. How well do you think that the current maternity care system in Australia meets the needs of the majority of women and babies?

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9. Please order the following areas of healthcare by how well you think they are served by the current system for the majority of women (best served at the top).

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10. In your experience, how often is women’s pregnancy-related, birth-related or postpartum pain normalised, dismissed or inadequately investigated?

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11. Have you observed instances of medical misogyny in response to women's experiences of pain? (As quoted in Inquiry Terms of Reference j. 'women's experience in seeking appropriate healthcare responses to pain, including experiences of medical misogyny'.)

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12. Are you aware of women experiencing challenges accessing postpartum healthcare or paying out of pocket for the following services:

  challenges accessing services out of pocket costs
infant feeding supports
mental health supports and services
physiotherapy services, including pelvic health services
related allied health services

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13. Do you experience barriers in providing contraceptive care (select all that apply to you)?

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14. In your experience, what would best support women to achieve their infant feeding goals and improve breastfeeding and/or infant feeding outcomes?
Please consider the information, education, clinical support, continuity of care, services, resources or broader system changes that you believe would make the greatest difference. Please select all that apply.

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15. What is the single most important change the Australian Government should make to improve women’s health during pregnancy and the postpartum period?

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16. Please provide a brief, de-identified example that illustrates either a significant gap in care or a model of care that worked particularly well. Do not include names, exact dates, locations, health records or details that could identify a woman, family, practitioner, service or organisation.

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17. Is there anything else ACM should raise with the Senate Select Committee on Women’s Health? This could include reproductive healthcare, fertility and assisted reproduction, medical devices, professional education, research, data collection or another matter within the inquiry’s Terms of Reference.

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