Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Full interview with Karen Guilliland, midwife advocate, reformer and one of the co-founders of the New Zealand College of Midwives.
0.00 - How well is NZ’s model of maternity care regarded overseas?
0:54 - Is the role of the midwife respected globally?
1:37 - What is an LMC (Lead Maternity Carer) or community midwife?
2:53 - How was maternity care in New Zealand carried out in the past ?
3:47 - What is the job of a midwife?
4:33 - The NZ midwifery model has helped change maternity care in many countries.
5:41 - Are you a midwife?
6:32 - What type of person makes a good midwife?
7:17 - What was midwifery like when you started in 1967?
8:26 - The erosion of the status of the midwife from early days to the 1990’s.
10:11 - What was the main thing that needed to change?
10:53 - How did you begin getting midwifery autonomous again?
11:58 - Did you have a template of how you wanted midwifery in NZ to look like?
12:56 - Were any other countries useful as a model?
13:32 - The Treaty of Waitangi as a partnership model.
14:47 - Who were the change-makers? What was Helen Clark’s role?
16:28 - About setting-up the New Zealand College of Midwives.
19:01 - What is the difference between nurses and midwifery?
20:59 - What does the College of Midwives do?
24:50 - The advocacy role of the New Zealand College of Midwives
26:38 - Where is the opposition coming from?
27:04 - How many babies do midwives look after in New Zealand?
28:08 - Why are midwives not paid as well as an anaesthetist earning 1M?
30:11 - What are midwives asking for?
31:57 - Are midwives better off than they were?
32:56 - Is there an increasing fear of childbirth for new mums?
34:21 - Are you training enough midwives?
35:35 - How long does a midwife stay in the profession?
36:46 - Why don’t midwives get employed by the hospitals - if providing continuity of care in the community becomes too hard?
37:59 - What evidence is there that midwives create better health outcomes?
38:40 - Can you judge a country by the way it treats its midwives?
39:40 - How important is the partner of a midwife in a sustainable career?
41:15 - How safe is it to have a baby now?
Full interview with Karen Guilliland, midwife advocate, reformer and one of the co-founders of the New Zealand College of Midwives.
0.00 - How well is NZ’s model of maternity care regarded overseas?
0:54 - Is the role of the midwife respected globally?
1:37 - What is an LMC (Lead Maternity Carer) or community midwife?
2:53 - How was maternity care in New Zealand carried out in the past ?
3:47 - What is the job of a midwife?
4:33 - The NZ midwifery model has helped change maternity care in many countries.
5:41 - Are you a midwife?
6:32 - What type of person makes a good midwife?
7:17 - What was midwifery like when you started in 1967?
8:26 - The erosion of the status of the midwife from early days to the 1990’s.
10:11 - What was the main thing that needed to change?
10:53 - How did you begin getting midwifery autonomous again?
11:58 - Did you have a template of how you wanted midwifery in NZ to look like?
12:56 - Were any other countries useful as a model?
13:32 - The Treaty of Waitangi as a partnership model.
14:47 - Who were the change-makers? What was Helen Clark’s role?
16:28 - About setting-up the New Zealand College of Midwives.
19:01 - What is the difference between nurses and midwifery?
20:59 - What does the College of Midwives do?
24:50 - The advocacy role of the New Zealand College of Midwives
26:38 - Where is the opposition coming from?
27:04 - How many babies do midwives look after in New Zealand?
28:08 - Why are midwives not paid as well as an anaesthetist earning 1M?
30:11 - What are midwives asking for?
31:57 - Are midwives better off than they were?
32:56 - Is there an increasing fear of childbirth for new mums?
34:21 - Are you training enough midwives?
35:35 - How long does a midwife stay in the profession?
36:46 - Why don’t midwives get employed by the hospitals - if providing continuity of care in the community becomes too hard?
37:59 - What evidence is there that midwives create better health outcomes?
38:40 - Can you judge a country by the way it treats its midwives?
39:40 - How important is the partner of a midwife in a sustainable career?
41:15 - How safe is it to have a baby now?
