Collaborative maternity carer

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
Synonymous names:	Collaborative maternity care professional
METEOR identifier:	562474
Registration status:	Health, Standard 14/05/2015
Definition:	The health care professional who collaborates with the designated maternity carer to provide care for women during the antenatal, intrapartum or postnatal stages of maternity care, based on the women's identified needs and individual circumstances.
Context:	Public and private maternity services.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	See also Designated maternity carer Health, Standard 14/05/2015
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Designated maternity carer Health, Standard 14/05/2015 Maternity model of care NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015 Maternity model of care—profession of collaborative maternity carer Health, Standard 14/05/2015 Maternity model of care—profession of collaborative maternity carer, code N[N] Health, Standard 14/05/2015