Mackay Base Hospital - Queensland Centre for Mothers & Babies

Indicator 14: Do care providers allow women to take their time during labour?Gold standard care is defined as women not feeling that they were rushed or hurried during labour.We asked women: “Did you feel rushed or hurried by your care provider(s) at any time during your labour?”The graph displays the percentage of women who said that they did not feel rushed or hurried by their care providers at any timeduring labour.STATEWIDE PUBLIC90Mackay Base Hospital (n=86)88Mackay Birth Centre (n=14)100Proserpine Hospital (n=32)78STATEWIDE PRIVATE91Mater Misericordiae Hospital Mackay (n=93)940 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100Best public hospitals in Queensland:Biloela Hospital 100%Dalby Hospital 100%Longreach Hospital 100%Stanthorpe Hospital 100%Warwick Hospital 100%Best public birth centres in Queensland:Mackay Birth Centre 100%Townsville Birth Centre 100%Best private hospital in Queensland:St Andrew’s Ipswich Private Hospital 98%What do women say about their care?“The staff are efficient without compromising onpatient care. It's obvious everybody is busy, but Inever felt rushed.”“My ob made me feel a little rushed and pressuredinto interventions”“Staff are professional and kind-even though it is abusy maternity ward, I never felt rushed.”“I was made to feel like I was a problem for thembecause I was taking too long to have my baby. I feltlike these midwives didn’t care about me at all.”29