New database critical to Royal's obstetric accreditation
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Royal Hobart Hospital CEO Craig White, says the State Government has committed to funding the new database. (ABC News: Linda Hunt)
The Royal Hobart Hospital is confident it can fulfil the requirements needed to keep its accreditation as an obstetric and gynaecology training site.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has re-accredited the hospital until 2011, on several conditions and will check progress in June next year.
Among the requirements is the establishment of a statewide database recording birth details in Tasmania.
The Hospital's chief executive, Craig White, says the hospital is looking at setting up a new system.
"It's a system that will be used to record details of birth events, health and condition of the babies and will support our data submission to the perinatal mortality committee as well, so its a very useful system and it will do away with manual record keeping," he said.
"There's a ministerial commitment to fund the data base, we're working to take that ahead as quickly as possible, it takes a little while make sure you get your information system scoping and planning right,
"We would like this to be a statewide system so obviously it's going to take a little while to work with the other hospitals."
