Gold Coast Birth Centre - Queensland Centre for Mothers & Babies

Private Hospitals
The number and percentage of women who provided responses to the 2010 Having a Baby in Queensland Survey for each
private hospital are provided below.
Number of respondents Response rate
Cairns Private Hospital 93 41%
John Flynn Private Hospital 108 42%
Mater Misericordiae Hospital Gladstone 34 46%
Mater Misericordiae Hospital Mackay 122 45%
Mater Misericordiae Hospital Rockhampton 110 47%
Mater Women’s and Children’s Hospital Townsville 146 41%
Mater Mothers’ Private Hospital (South Brisbane) 761 49%
Mater Mothers’ Private Redland 68 46%
Nambour Selangor Private Hospital 148 48%
North West Private Hospital 297 48%
Pindara Private Hospital 242 43%
St Andrew’s Ipswich Private Hospital 68 50%
St Vincent’s Hospital Toowoomba 175 44%
Sunnybank Private Hospital 190 41%
Sunshine Coast Private Hospital 83 51%
Wesley Private Hospital 283 48%
STATEWIDE PRIVATE HOSPITALS 2,935 46%
Representativeness of Respondents
The survey respondents include women who had live births (single and multiple births) in Queensland between February 1 and
May 30, 2010. The representativeness of survey respondents was compared with population statistics reported for women who
gave birth in Queensland in 2008 (based on Australia’s Mothers and Babies, and Perinatal Statistics Queensland) on several key
indices 2 . It is important to note that these comparisons provide an estimate only of sample representativeness given that
population statistics are not yet publically available for women who gave birth in 2010. Additionally, the 2008 population
statistics include women who experienced a stillbirth or a neonatal death, however these women are not included in the Having a
Baby in Queensland data presented in this report.
Relative to the women who gave birth in Queensland in 2008 (Laws et al., 2010; Queensland Health, 2010), the respondent
sample under-represented the following groups:
− Multiparous women (54.6% in the respondent sample vs. 60.0% of all birthing women in Queensland)
− Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander women (1.7% in the respondent sample vs. 5.6% of all Queensland birthing
women)
− Younger women (aged