CoC in the Public System - Getting Started

Elizabeth Bennet has been a midwife for 40 years and now focuses on project design and implementation, management and growth of midwifery group practices in NSW and SA particularly in rural areas. She takes pride in watching midwives enjoying working to their full scope of practice.

Students working in CoC

Dr Nikki Tickle completed her PhD on the topic of Enhancing students’ clinical learning in continuity of care experiences. Tallulah McCarthy-Huxley, a third-year student midwife who, after seeing the benefits of continuing of care as a student, hopes to fulfil a graduate position in MGP next year.

First Nations CoC

Melissa Thompson, Clinical Midwife Consultant at the Waijungbah Jarjums Midwifery Group Practice.

Grampians Health Ballarat - Increasing continuity

Tonia Mitchell is currently in the role of Nurse Unit Manager at Grampians Health in Ballarat, and co-ordinates the antenatal clinics, childbirth education and domiciliary care services. Tonia has been a midwife for 30 years and is passionate about improving antenatal care for women in our community by creating new and innovative ways of achieving increased continuity. In doing so, changing processes and systems to enable this change.

Helen Sudholz is nurse midwife who after almost 20 years work in a tertiary hospital has returned closer to home to Grampians Health. Her role in maternity outpatients as an AMUM supports antenatal clinic and postnatal care in the home. She is inspired everyday by the women and families she meets. Helen has a master’s in clinical midwifery and is an active member of the ACM.

Benefits of CoC on Breastfeeding

Dr Jen Hocking worked as a midwife in the Australian public maternity system for 20 years before undertaking a PhD – a focused ethnographic study of lactation consultant practice which she completed in 2020. Jen was the course coordinator of the Bachelor of Midwifery at ACU in Melbourne for 5 years and is now a professional engagement lead at the ABA.

Remote CoC

Christian Wright is a nurse and midwife with extensive experience working remotely with isolated communities across Papua New Guinea and Arnhem Land. Christian has learned to navigate midwifery practice in response to maternal and community needs, both as a male in sacred Indigenous birthing spaces and as a clinician in rural and resource scarce environments.