PURPOSE To discuss cultural safety and critique the provision of culturally appropriate maternity services to remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia. PROCEDURE The literature and policies around 'culture' and 'cultural safety' are discussed and applied to the provision of maternity services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in remote areas of Australia. ...

The Maternity Department of the University Hospital of Lille has a total of 107 births capacity per week. The mean birth rate per week in 2011 was of 89. This important difference between birth rate and capacity seems to be related to organization problems regarding maternity rooms’ assignation which is manually recorded. In this paper, we hypothesized that the development of a software solutio...

1. Gray B. Lead maternity care needs to be embedded in general practice—the ‘yes’ case. J Prim Health Care. 2015;7(1):71–73. 2. Primary Maternity Services Amendment Notice 2012. [cited 2015 April]. Available from: http://www.health.govt.nz/system/ files/documents/publications/primary-maternity-services-amendment-notice-2012.pdf Bruce Arroll, Pauline Norris, Jo Scott-Jones and Shane Reti. Your s...