An expert on maternity services is urging the government to introduce national guidelines on disability identification and routine data collection for women across Australia.
A study by the Judith Lumley Centre at Latrobe University, published in June of this year, was the first of its kind to investigate the way maternity services in Australia identified disability.
It found most services didn't have processes to identify women with disabilities or couldn't estimate how many women with a disability were seen at their hospital.
