The Health Ministry is set to change the way independent midwives report to district health boards, an expert medical witness has told a coroner's inquest in Wanganui.
Coroner Garry Evans has been hearing evidence into the death of a boy who died soon after he was born seven years ago at Wanganui Hospital.
The vice-president of the Royal New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Dr Digby Ngan Kee, told the inquest that access agreements meant independent midwives were not legally accountable to DHBs even after a critical incident.
"These are about to be changed at last."
